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Along with the trend of globalization, the rise of the Chinese economy, and the encouraging policies published by the government, more and more Chinese companies started to walk across the border. However, there are always threats behind the opportunities. Xiaomi Technology Co. Ltd, which is conceived as one of the leading innovative tech companies, has achieved outstanding success in the domestic market of the mainland China, occupying the biggest Market share after establishing for 4 years, and obtaining profound influences for the whole telefone industry. Xiaomi started its internationalization process in 2013 and decided to be na international company. In this thesis, an introduction about industry background would be delivered, including how foreign multinationals like Samsung and Apple are influencing Chinese market, and how Chinese telephone companies like TCL, One plus is deciding to explore the oversea market in this situation. Moreover, the international practices of Xiaomi were described, ranging from the trial sales in Hong Kong and Taiwan to the complete launch to Southeast Asia and the Other markets. More importantly, three main problems Xiaomi has been exposed during its internationalization process were studied – The patent crisis, and the unsuccessful sales performance aboard. Xiaomi's international expansion experiences in India and Brazil has been taken as an example to discuss and analyze, though secondary data, the selection of foreign market, the entry mode, the problems and solution of the dilemma that Chinese enterprises faced, aiming at offering a valuable lesson of experience to the other companies which may have the plan to start its internationalization process. ; Junto com a tendência da globalização, a ascensão da economia chinesa e as políticas encorajadoras publicadas pelo governo, mais e mais empresas chinesas começaram a cruzar a fronteira. No entanto, sempre há ameaças por trás das oportunidades. A Xiaomi Technology Co. Ltd, que é concebida como uma das empresas líderes em ...

This study employed content analysis to examine the portrayals of grandparents' images and their grandparenting roles in Laotongzhi Zhiyou (Friend of Old Comrades). With a current circulation of 480, 000, Friend of Old Comrades is a national monthly magazine in China whose target audiences include retirees, institutions, and governmental agencies engaged in work and services related to the elderly. Articles (N = 195) that feature grandparent-grandchild interactions were chosen from 156 issues--from 1995 to 2007--of the magazine and were content analyzed to uncover images of grandparents and portrayals of grandparenting roles. Results revealed that grandparents were predominantly portrayed as positive, healthy, and respected. In addition, positive age stereotypes such as Perfect Grandparent, Golden Ager, and Honorable Elder were prevalent with very little negative stereotyping (e.g., Impaired Elder, Despondent) found in the majority of the articles. Results also indicated that over half of the articles featuring grandparents and younger grandchildren depicted grandparents as adopting an involved grandparenting style, playing roles such as caregiver, mentor, playmate, and spoiling grandparent. Findings are discussed in light of cultivation theory and prior research on the media portrayal of intergenerational communication in both Eastern and Western cultural contexts.

Leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) has been well documented as having substantial health benefits. The 2014 Chinese Fitness Survey Report stated that a lack of physical activity (PA) spaces is the most important non-human factor, leading to 10% of leisure-time physical inactivity in people aged 20 and above. We investigated the provision of sports venues in China and discussed the development of sports venues and national fitness policies in the context of promoting LTPA and public health. We analyzed information from China's most recent sport venue census, the Sixth National Sports Venues Census, conducted in 2013. The number of sports venues increased between 2000 and 2013, with an inflection point around the year 2008. At the end of 2013, there were 12.45 venues for every 10,000 residents, and the per capita area was 1.46 m(2). However, numbers were still small compared with the United States and Japan. The percentages of full-time access, part-time access and membership venues were 51.5%, 14.3% and 34.2% respectively. Only half of sports venues were fully open to the public, meaning that the realized number and area per capita could be even lower. A lack of sports venues forces people who want to engage in PA to occupy other urban spaces that are not planned and designed for PA. Urban parks had 119,750 fitness station facilities (3.32% of the total), and 2366 urban fitness trails (19.24%), with a combined length of 6450 km (32.91%). On average, urban and rural areas had 13.17 and 10.80 venues per 10,000 persons, and 1.83 m(2) and 0.97 m(2) per capita. The urban-rural gap in sports venues exactly embodies some aspects of the "urban-rural dual structure" in China's society. Measures to promote PA should focus on new and existing sports venues. In the policy making process, Chinese governments need to pay attention to the potential impact of related, external factors such as the gap between the urban and the rural and the potential advantage of indoor venues against summer heat and air pollution.