Shanghai Enterprise Attachment Programme has always been a fruitful exchange event every year between People’s Association Youth Movement (PAYM) and Shanghai Youth Federation. This year, 5 delegates were sent over to Shanghai for this year’s exchange.
The group of 5 met with the volunteers at Shanghai Youth Federation (SYF) Headquarters. There was a short briefing of the development of Shanghai over the years, and what is SYF’s mission and vision were being shared in an hour’s briefing.
Wilfred were both posted to the Shanghai Youth Newspapers Company (上海青年报社) and shown the office. The HR personnel, Dai Rong, briefed the 2 delegates on what was the work process of day to day publication and showed them the finished newspapers on that same day. She also shared with them the organizational structure and culture within the company which includes its subsidiaries. The delegates were asked to share with her what were their expectations in this attachment and what was the area of news publication that they were comfortable in. There was a freedom of choice and gladly, the delegates were then posted internally to the various departments that they find comfort in.
Being in the finance news department which suited him perfectly as he is currently an undergraduate in NTU pursuing a degree in Business, specializing in Banking & Finance. The 1st article he published was a translation from Bloomberg which is the article on the purchasing of HBOS by Lloyds Bank onto the newspaper the very next day.
After the success of his 1st article, he went on to publish his 2nd article which revolves around the AIG Bailout incident in US. The demand from him is slightly different this time round. He was required to do online interviews with Singaporeans who are holding AIA insurance policies. This was to give China an overview of the global situation of AIG.
To further make this trip an enriching one, Wilfred took part in the section “Happy Singles” of the magazine subsidiary, Life Weekly (生活周刊). Every week, a male and a female will be chosen from a pool of applicants to be featured for this particular section. In this section, the participants will have a date with one another on that day and be asked questions that are associated with their love experiences and what do they look for in a soul mate. The only condition is that the participants have to be singles. As Wilfred is the SDS Secretary in his YEC, he took the opportunity to learn from this event and how it will be applicable in the context of Singapore. The photo shoot was successful and it is expected to be published during mid October.
Sitting in the office writing articles can be boring after a while if one is not used to it.
Therefore, the finance news department head, Jin Yu, arranged for Wilfred to be attached to their top finance reporter for a day, Mr. Pu. During this day, he visited the finance district which seemingly resembles Singapore’s CBD area. Not only did he visit the finance district, together with Mr.Pu, he interviewed one of the vice president of the investment division of Bank of China. The topic revolves around the financial outlook for the next few periods.
Overall, it was a great experience for Wilfred to be close to what he does best and learn the Chinese perspective of dealing with things.
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