Porter's Diamond

Factor of production

Shenzhen is located in China's economic developed Pearl River Delta, adjacent to Hong Kong, high-tech industries, financial services, foreign trade and exports, maritime transport developed, Occupy a pivotal position in the Chinese mainland economy. It has 10 million of people can supply the needs of the manufacture market. Such as Foxconn, which has hundreds thousands of employees in Shenzhen. Owing to Foxconn’s high efficiency production in Shenzhen, many high-tech company like Google, IBM, Samsung, Microsoft, Apple etc. they would like to ask Foxconn produces product for them, such as the Iphone we are using. After Foxconn produced, those companies can directly export to other countries (Yantian, Chiwan, Shekou maritime ports of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Total Berth 176-ton container berths 69 and 44, respectively, as of the end of 2010 ). Owing to most of huge high-tech enterprises consider Shenzhen as a world class manufacture, most of product will export to different places in the world.

Supportive industry

In order to improve the infrastructure, Shenzhen government invests around 1billion RMB to construct 10 infrastructures. It has BaoAn international airport which has been operated 35 domestic and oversee companies and 130 airlines. It also has world class ports like Yantian, Chiwan, Shekou etc for supporting export industry. Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway and Beijing-Kowloon Railway is an important railway lines in Shenzhen, Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway in Guangzhou and Beijing-Guangzhou line, the main artery of the Chinese railway access. Shenzhen has many highways and MTR to let people and goods to be more convenient.

Firm strategy, structure and Rivalry

In order to compete with the competitors ( Hong Kong & Guangzhou ) around it. It keeps it strength of high-tech industry development and export, also it has stock market which can compete with HongKong’s.

Demand condition

Nowadays, people like to look for convenient, beautiful, creatable new product, especially in the high-tech market. As the result, Shenzhen will get plenty of orders from the companies every day. 

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Survey

In the chart, I think the organization provide me a situation with suitable pressure, and also for appreciate differences are that be special sometime owing to let others remember you. However, for me, new ideas are good, but I will consider the other’s suggestions and apply it into realistic, if it does not work, I won’t accept the idea. That’s why I may lose the chance of success. I often review what I did, but time is short, it makes an unclear after – action review, so that the I may not think in-depth for better solution.

As the chart, it points that I would like to try to test something I don’t know. Let say, if I want to want to create a new business in Macau, I won’t care will this business success or not, I just believe it will work because I will do information collection and having an analysis. Even it fails, it still brings me experience and helps me a lot in doing another business in one day. In my opinion, we have to earn money through using our brain rather than wasting sweat because nowadays we are living in a fully knowledge base society, we better to use our brain instead of body strength. During the learning processes, I usually ask others experience and learn how to success in the market. And also once you are honest to treat your friends or customer, it’s good for building your network, for any businessman, it very significant to do that.

As the scores show that I need to have training about leadership, now I have this class, it helps. In my point of view, as a employee, it's very difficult for us to change the learning environment.

Charter City

In our society, we have two rules as professor mentioned ( formal & informal rules ).

Broadly formal rules refer to the law which is issued and create by our legislative council and regulations in the organization. The informal rules refer to the family rules. As a resident, we have to respect Macau’s law and sometimes respect family rule, no matter how strong they are, everyone can break the rules. According to Professor Paul Remer, it is said that a good rule should provide choices to leader and people. As we have development planning for HengQin Island, GuangDong and Macau government had signed the Framework Agreement on Cooperation Between Guangdong and Macao. Government had provided different preferential policies for attracting investors or companies to come here to invest. Also people can decide whether they want to work there or not, but as least government had promised to reduce the occupation tax as well. In order to build up a charter city, government must have a good plan like this agreement, so that people would like to live and work there.

Government establishes new department for discussing how to connect with Macau and GuangDong’s law. Also in the planning, government has tried to offer preferential policies to the people or company who want to work or invest here. Both cities provide choices to people, and they cooperate with each other in order to let people stay and work there, through using this method, they can pursue this method throughout entire GuangDong and Macau.

In recent decades, people would like to discuss about the law, they found that many problems happen because of the poor law, they are not consummate. As we can see that many parliamentary gave recommendations to the government for changing once they found mistakes or lack of. Such as, real estate industry, they don’t have a standardize regulation for working in this industry, but now, the agent suggest parliamentary to have a discussion about creating new law especially for this industry, as the result they learn from HongKong and try to copy and improve those regulations to be more suitable for local. The implications of this law are that people should have more professional knowledge about real estate, so that the quality of service will be increased because of this new rule.

Hepatitis B

Problems of Hepatitis B

As we know that Hepatitis is one of the common viruses but immedicable complaint. There still doesn’t have any effective medicine or treatment can totally solve this disease.

Possible Cause:

People is infected through vertical transmission, blood or blood product, medical devices (Scalpels, dental drills, endoscopic or laparoscopic etc), close sexual encounter or people go to public、barber shop or beauty salon, those public bathhouses and razors will spread HBV virus to people who do not have antibodies.

Possible Solutions:

If the mother has infected HBV, after give birth, baby has to vaccinate and vaccinate Immunoglobulin within 24 hours. People should not use same syringes with patients, all medical devices should be sterilized, patients should not use the same razors, toothbrushes in order to avoid be sterilized by scratching the skin or mucous membranes and do not donate blood. In daily life, patients should sleep early, no alcohol drinks, take body check twice a year at least.

Desired Impact:

This disease will persecute the patient for entire life. The patient has to mind what foods they cannot eat, what sport they cannot play and they must sleep early ( it creates many limitations to the patient. And also Hepatitis is that it affects patients’ lifestyle, their healthy, even their career, such as researcher in the laboratory, police or the job of which is required roll shifts. Furthermore, people who get the HBV may be discriminated by people around them; it’s pretty hard for them to make friends or promotion move up.

Competitive Advantages

We have 10 higher education institutions in Macao. In this small place, it’s too many for us to have 10 higher education institutions. That means local student they have more choices, as the result, universities have to be more competitive through creating competitive advantages and extend their strong and professional categories. In USJ, we perform western style teaching system, compare to other universities in Macao, USJ promotes its teaching style in order to attract more students. For our students, they know that USJ is the only one in Macao providing completely different style of teaching compare with our traditional teaching methods. People would like to try and study in the western style university, it’s a pretty match for many mixed people and foreigner in Macao.

In the education market, even we have these competitive now, but if we don’t keep improving, one day we may lose our competitive advantages. Such as, in the past decades,  America is the most powerful county in the world, it’s local enterprises has globalized their business, they have many competitive advantages compare to other companies in the same industry, sometime even monopolize the industry. However we can see that nowadays, China, Russia, Brazil and India develop very well, and they waver in America’s status, as we can see the different between these countries and America. The most valuable, rare, inimitable and non-substitutable is technology, that’s why America is still the leader of the world. For USJ, I think the most valuable, rare, inimitable and non-substitutable is research. Once its student and professor create or find out something very significant for the world, the creator and research can apply patent for their product or theory. This is pretty hard for other competitors to copy, nevertheless, these kinds of professor may go to work for our competitors, so that human resources become vital for asking these employee to stay in USJ. It helps USJ to become more popular.

USJ is running well with the resources it has. It trains students regarding the modules and try to help them to find a job. During the learning process, we have IT support to help us in the technology category. Moreover, USJ has human resource team to recruit good professors for helping student in the learning process. USJ also provide training to the teachers in order to share their teaching experience to other. All these things drive USJ move forward.

Porter's Five Forces Analysis of USJ

For USJ, I think the bargaining power of buyers – students’ power in Macau is not that high because we only have few good universities in Macau. As the high school graduate students wants to take their licentiate degree, it seems they don’t have many choices, but still have some, as the result, I think that students’ power is right in the medium level. On the other case, If the student wants to student in Macau and learning under a totally western teaching system, the power of them are low, because USJ is the only one which is running western teaching system in Macau.

In the bargaining power of suppliers, I would like to give one example here. For instance, USJ wants buy 1000 chairs from A company, once there only has one chair supply in the market, the supplier’s bargaining power must be very high. However, if there have some different suppliers, USJ will try to contact with other supplier in order to cut their cost and increase the value. Under this situation, USJ has more bargaining power than the supplier. As we know there have various suppliers in Mainland or other places for supplying chairs, so that USJ seems has high bargaining power in this case.

USJ is an education institution of providing service in Macau, it provides high quality of education to students. If someone establishes an institution for providing similar courses to the Macau resident, those institutions will affect the income of USJ, they make another choice for customers, so that those institutions are the substitute of USJ. Under this pressure, USJ has to increase its competitive advantages and promote its unique selling point – western teaching style to keep raising the rate of new register. Also, USJ should increase its teaching quality as well or cut their tuition fee to attract more students.

Threat of new entrants, to run an university in Macau, investor has to invest a lot of money on the project owing we don’t have many students here in Macau, so that it’s really hard for new competitor to achieve break-even, and also it needs to spend huge money on getting people’s eyes. I think capital is one of the threats of new entrants. Secondly, new entrants have to reach the requirement from the government, this is another threat.