During the time from April 11 to May 1st, 2015, invited by the business school of Soochow University in Taiwan, professor Fan Libo went to Taiwan for academic exchanges and to give lectures on <Globalization Management> to undergraduates, masters and EMBA students from the business school. The lectures covers a few topics including the development of China’s transforming economy, the investment strategy and operation of transnational companies in China, and the outward foreign direct investment strategy and operation of Chinese companies. During the time, professor Fan had academic exchanges with teachers from department of business administration, and made a report on <The Take-over Mode of China’s Growth Enterprises and the Management Mode of Multinational Companies>. On April 30, professor Fan visited the president of Soochow University, Pan Weida, and they reviewed the long history of cooperation between the two universities and looked forward to the future cooperation areas and potential. Soochow University enjoys a good repute in Taiwan for its legal and business education, and there has already been a long cooperation in legal area between Soochow University and UIBE. Cooperation in business education was established in 2013, and student exchanges are normalized now. Every year, Soochow University invites a senior professor in management from UIBE to be a visiting professor in their school and to give lectures.

On April 23rd, invited by professor Yuan Yiman, institute director of European Instite of Tamkang University, and Professor Zhang Wuyue, institute director of Mainland Institute of Tamkang University, professor Fan made an academic report on <Global Perspective and China’s Practice>, which attracted more than 100 attendees including teachers and students from Tamkang University. Professor Fan reviewed the development history of “made in China” and “China’s Capital”, and the new trend of China’s foreign direct investment. Based on this, he put forward the strategic remodeling logic of “dis-embedding and embedding” of “made in China”, which stroke a chord with all the attendees. Before the report, Doctor Zhang Jiayi, president of Tamkang University, and doctor Dai Wanqin, vice president of Tamkang University, talked with professor Fan about cooperation. President Zhang recalled her visit to UIBE in 1996 pleasantly. She said Tamkang University should explore the possibility and feasibility of all-round cooperation with UIBE. At last, they exchanged their souvenirs. Tamkang University, established by Zhang Ming and his son Zhang Jianbang in 1950, is one of the most famous private universities now in Taiwan. Its current president Zhang Jiayi is the daughter of the founder Zhang Jianbang.

On April 25, Professor Fan visited Nestle Co. Ltd. in Taiwai for research. Zhao Junzhe, Chief Technology Officer of Nestle, and Chen Zhengzhe, Directer of Quality Assurance Department, had an in depth interview with Professor Fan. They introduced about how Nestle in Taiwan, as one of the business divisions of Nestle in Greater China, manage its “farm-factory-market” mode industrial chain system in an all round way. They stressed that there was a great difference between the mainland market and Taiwan market both in scale and in attribute. Limited by market scale, production facilities and technology in Taiwan had to be highly resilient. So Taiwan market was characterized with multispecies of small-lot, while mainland could manufacture large batches. Besides the above market differences, there is also a big gap in technical regulations. Test rating for most products before leaving factories are specific and detailed, while there are much fewer requirements in Taiwan technical inspection. For example, there are more than 100 indicators for milk powder inspection in Mainland, while there are only dozens in Taiwan.