Day 20 (27/9//11)

Today, after the cultural lessons in the morning, we went for industrial visit. We went to a factory called maipu. At this factory, we saw many machines that were used to produce the circuit boards. One of the machines was to mount bigger items onto the board and another was to mount the smaller items. There was even a long and large machine that was used to solder the mounted products together. Compared to the previous industry we visited, maipu uses more technology and less manual work. In the previous industry, there were rows and rows of people producing the circuit board manually. Maipu creates more stock than the previous industry, hence it’s sales market is considered big. We also watched a video of the growth of the factory. Maipu have went through a lot of changes through the years. Now, they’ve businesses from all over world. Presidents from many different countries have visited their company here in Chengdu, it includes our prime minister from Singapore. I am really honored to visit such a country and I learnt a handful from them. I hope to visit more of this kind of company as I would like to take Singapore to greater heights in the electrical field.