Bulletin Number One 1982

University Hosts Seminar on Enterprise Management A "Seminar on Enterprise Management in China", jo in tly organized by the Faculty o f Business Ad ministration o f this university and the Institute o f Industrial Economics o f the Chinese Academy o f Social Sciences, was held from 14th-19th June, 1982 at the Cho Yiu Hall o f the University. Chaired by Professor K.C. Mun, Dean o f the Faculty o f Business Administration, and Mr. Jiang Yiwei, Deputy D i rector o f the Institute o f Industrial Economics o f the Chinese Academy o f Social Sciences, the Seminar was attended by some 50 participants, o f whom 9 were from the Institute o f Industrial Economics and about 40 were from The Chinese University, the University o f Hong Kong, the Baptist College, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic. A t the opening ceremony, the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Ma Lin, pointed out that the Seminar was the first o f its kind, in which academics from China and Hong Kong discussed enterprise management in China. Such exchanges, he said, had academic, educational as well as practical value, and their significance would increase w ith time. One o f the lectures delivered at the Seminar was open to all. It was entitled "Issues concerning China's strategies in social and economic development" and given by Mr. Yu Guangyuan, Vice-President o f the Chinese Academy o f Social Sciences and well- known economist, on 14th June at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hall. It was attended by an audience o f 600 ， which included staff and students o f the University, people from commercial, industrial and academic circles as well as journalists. In his lecture, Mr. Yu pointed out that China's economic development should be integrated w ith its social development, so as to improve people's quality o f life and to achieve a high degree o f material and spiritual civilization. "Wealth does not necessarily mean happiness, much less does poverty," he added. China's strategies in social and economic development should, Mr. Yu believed, take into consideration people's life-style, values and conception o f happiness, etc. The Seminar consisted o f four sessions: (1) China's economic adjustment and institutional reform; (2) the structure o f China's enterprise and the system o f its leadership; (3) the management o f China's enterprise; (4) the application o f management skills in China's enterprise. Seventeen papers by academics from the University and the Institute o f Industrial Economics were presented. Participants from this University included Professor K.C. Mun, Mr. Lamp Li, Mr. Yau Hon-ming, Dr. Nyaw Mee Kau, Dr. Tuan Chyau, Dr. Chang Zeph-yun, Mr. Chen Kar- nin (Faculty o f Business Administration), Dr. Ambrose Y.C. King, Dr. Hsueh Tien-tung, Dr. Sung Yun-wing and Dr. Stephen Lung-wai Tang (Faculty o f Social Science). In his closing address, Professor Mun revealed that future seminars on enterprise management in China would be held alternately in China and Hong Kong. For next year's seminar, the city o f Chengdu in Sichuan Province has been tentatively chosen as the venue, —M.K. Nyaw 15