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This is my first time to know about the inflatable products. I have seen some in the park or some business activities before. I know many activities can use it to decorate, in order to increase the festival atmosphere.

Today I work in a trading company. It is specializing inflatable products. I can say that I am not familiar with these products in the first days. Through these days study, I know about a new world. Different kinds of products make me dizzy. It seems that I go into a fairy world. It is very mysterious. I know every kid would like to have these lovely toys, just like when I am a child.

These inflatable products are exported many different countries. Many people buy it to decorate house, park or give their kids for playing. Use the products to decorate your house is a good idea. For example inflatable chairs. You can put it in the restaurant room, it is very vivid. Some of the products are supplied for kids’ playing. As a lot of inflatable products add educational elements. Kids can learn much knowledge from it.

If you want to achieve success in the inflatable market is not an easy thing. The most important is your quality. Top quality is your best guarantee to customers. Secondly creativity is also important. Nowadays, the inflatable market is fierce competition. If your products are lack of creativity, you cannot be competitive with others. Good and unique design can stand in the market. Hence we need a batch of creative designers. Next good after-sale service is indispensable. We know that customer is god. We should provide them the best service. The last but not the least is marketing strategic. How we sale our products in the market? How to advertise? They are a challenge questions.

In these days I learn much. I know I am not familiar with in this field, many things are waiting for me to study. Every time when I want to give up, I tell myself “keep going”. No matter what problems you meet, you must face them bravely. Due to life is full of many difficulties. Only experienced failures, you can achieve success. Fail is the mother of success.

I know I will win in the end. I will get the achievement in the field. At the same time I believe that inflatable products have a good prospective.

By Wang Wen and Xiao Huo (China Daily)

The Chinese capital is allowing expatriates to be elected as “model workers” for the first time.

“You don’t have to be a Communist Party member, a Communist Youth League member or even a member of the trade union in your company,” said Wang Yonghao, director of the marketing department of the Beijing municipal federation of trade unions, the authority that selects the role models. “We are simply looking for people who have the potential to become leaders in society.”

For decades, model workers in China have been cast as a political symbols emulating selflessness among the working class. The title is awarded every five years. Winners of the title, many of whom are recommended by employers eager for public exposure, are often forced to endure media bombardment in return for the recognition.

But the federation of trade unions is taking a different approach this year.
“We welcome everybody in Beijing, be they foreign staff or migrant workers. Even nannies with excellent records and good personalities can be nominated,” Huo Lianming, vice-president of the union, said on a morning radio show.

The federation said there is no quota of expatriate winners but said at least some will likely be selected.

The move to include expatriates is part of Beijing’s ambition to become an international city, officials said.

Elyse Ribbons, an American actress and playwright who has been in Beijing for seven years, said she understands what it means to become a model worker in China and that she would be honored if chosen.

“I didn’t know that there are still model worker nominations now,” said the 29-year-old from Detroit. “It’s still part of a socialist-style propaganda campaign, but it would definitely be fun to be elected.”

The only criteria for Beijing’s candidates this time are three years of work experience in Beijing - not necessarily at the same company - and making exceptional contributions, the federation said.

There will be about 1,200 winners altogether, but what the winners get has not been decided, said the federation.
But the federation is unlikely to grant winners Beijing hukou (Beijing permanent residency).

“We have never granted hukou to previous awardees,” said Wang. “We believe the issue of hukou has little to do with honoring model workers,” Wang told METRO.
Five years ago, more than 100 model workers were selected in Beijing and each got 15,000 yuan. Some even got increased subsidies for education, medical services and housing, because their employers had to treat them well after their public appearance.
This is also the first time that migrant workers in Beijing, most of whom don’t have hukou, can become model workers.

The federation said that accepting migrant worker nominations promotes social equality.
The federation has started accepting nominations on March 15 and will stop on March 20.

BEIJING - The year of 2010 will be a crucial but complicated year for China’s economic development, Premier Wen Jiabao said at the parliament annual session Friday.

“This is a crucial year for the country to continue fighting against the global financial crisis while maintaining a steady and comparatively fast economic development and accelerating the transformation of economic growth pattern,” Wen said while delivering the government work report to the National People’s Congress.

This year is important also because it is the last year for the government to fulfill the targets set in the country’s 11th Five-year Plan and to lay a sound foundation for work on the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), Wen said.

“Although the development environment this year may be better than last year, we still face a very complicated situation,” he said.

Many uncertainties and challenges, both domestic and global, remain this year, including grim employment situation, overcapacity in some sectors, increasing trade protectionism and food security issue, Wen noted.

The country will continue implementing the proactive fiscal policy and moderately loose monetary policy this year while enhancing the focus and flexibility of the policy according to new conditions, he said.

“We will work to balance the work of maintaining stable and comparatively fast economic growth, adjusting economic structure and preventing possible inflation,” Wen said.

Last year was the most difficult year for China’s economic development since the beginning of the new century, he said.

As the first country emerging from the global economic downturn, China reported an annual economic growth of 8.7 percent in 2009. The rate was lower than the 9.6-percent growth in 2008 and annual double-digit increases in the 2003-2007 period.

China’s quarterly economic growth accelerated as the government’ s economic stimulus package started to pay off. The national economy rose 6.2 percent in the first quarter last year, 7.9 percent in the second quarter, 9.1 percent in the third and 10.7 percent in the fourth.

However, “we must not interpret the economic recovery as a fundamental improvement in the economic situation,” Wen said. “We need to be on high alert for potential dangers, make full use of favorable conditions and positive factors, strive to resolve problems, make even more thorough preparations to deal with risks and challenges of all kinds.”