🇩🇪 Third Flying Seminar on SCM in Beibu Golf Region 🇨🇳

From November 11^th to 18^th, 2017, 25 students from Ingolstadt and Merseburg participated in the 3rd Flying Seminar held in Nanning and Qinzhou, China. The students had the opportunity to explore the latest trends in supply chain management, international trade, and foreign investment.

The event took place at Guangxi University and Quinzhou University. The German students was accompanied by Prof. Dr. Andreas Jattke from Ingolstadt Technical University of Applied Sciences and Prof. Dr. Dirk Sackmann from Merseburg University of Applied Sciences.

The seminar featured a series of panel about the development of supply chain management, SCM finance, comparative logistics practices in China and Germany, and the logistics infrastructure of the Beibu Gulf region in southern China.

In addition to the academic sessions, the students, teachers and professors got the chance to visit different companies and ports of the Guangxi region to get a closer look on how logistics operations are conducted. there. These site visits included China Post, a cold storage warehouse, a company specializing in warehousing and commissioning, and two key maritime hubs: the Beibu Gulf Port and Fangcheng Port, where students observed maritime logistics in Southern China.

The group also took an excursion to the Vietnamese border, where they observed cross-border trade activities between China and Vietnam.

Beyond the academic and professional aspects, the trip offered cultural immersion and personal connections. The German students experienced Chinese culture, hospitality, and cuisine and built friendships through constant interaction with their Chinese counterparts. The Chinese and German teams interacted all the time and also had a lot of fun in their evening leisure time, for example at the karaoke bar.

On the final day, the study groups hiked up Qingxiu Mountain in Nanning to observe the region’s natural beauty and ancient temples.

The whole week was hosted very kindly by the Chinese hosts and resulted in a great experience and an exciting trip where the German students learned a lot about Chinese logistics systems and cultural traditions.

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