The office

Some people have asked me what the office and the surrounding look like here. So, today I made a few snapshots with my mobile phone to give you an impression.

As you can see, it's not very fancy. But ... we do have airconditioning, which is something you cannot do without here, especially during the warm months. Here in Fuzhou, this means from the beginning of April until the end of November, as I have been told.

The baracks we occupy, are located on the grounds of the factory of our partners, the South Eest Motor Corporation (SEM). The big building houses the cantina, the design department and some other administration departments of SEM. Also, our presidents office is located here. The factory produces cars of the peculiar brand SouEast (DongNan in Chinese) and, since recently, the Mitsubishi Galant. The factory grounds are part of an industrial park, about 30 km from Fuzhou, in which many of the SEM suppliers set up production facilities as well, for logistics purposes.

The idea is to move to the office buildings of our future plant, as soon as it's ready. It will be built in the vicinity of SEM, which means around 40 minutes of commuting every morning and every evening, which is about the same as I was used to in Germany.