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Briefly assess your career progress to date. Elaborate on your future career plans and your motivation for pursuing a graduate business degree in the US.

My career goal is to lead a state-owned company to expand from a local to international business scale.  The first thing I want to do after I earn an MBA is to work as a manager in general management at a multinational for several years.  Equipped with sophisticated management skills I learn from this experience, I will move ahead to direct the operation of a state-owned company.  

Now the badly managed state-own companies are running in red and laying off their workers on a massive scale.  The most effective way to help these workers and companies is to train their managers.  I want to share my efforts and expertise with them.  This was what I learned after I graduated from university in 1994 with a hope of reforming a state-owned enterprise.  

At that time, most state-owned enterprises were running in the doldrums.  Interpreting challenges as opportunities, I volunteered to join Beijing Engine Corporation, the third largest industrial enterprise in Beijing.  After one year in the company, I realized there was not much we could do to change the status quo of such companies.  

Knowing such backward companies would not offer much for me to learn about management, I decided to select a multinational to work for.  In October 1995, I was employed by Kodak (China) Limited.  I have really learned a lot over the last three years at Kodak.  Kodak performs well in developing new techniques, making high quality products, setting efficient distribution channels around the world and offering good services to customers. What impresses me most is the teamwork spirit in Kodak.  Support is coming to me everyday from our local office, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne and Rochester.  I did not personally know most of my colleagues in those places, but I can always rest assured that we are working in the same team.

Now three years of working experiences with Kodak have turned me into a professional businessman.  I can pursue my career with Kodak and continue to learn business management skills.  However, I will have more opportunities if I can earn an MBA at a renowned business school.  To receive MBA training at this stage of my career will be good for my personal growth.  After I examined my past working history and education, I came to believe that a rigorous training in business management will launch me onto my desired career track.
         
My undergraduate years were spent at Xi'an Jiaotong University, one of the most prestigious institutes in China.  I was admitted in 1989 without taking the usually mandatory admission test held nationwide each year.  Only a handful of the very best high school students are given such offers by several leading universities around the country.  My academic performance continued to shine at university.

The student leadership positions I held during my undergraduate studies may well indicate my good mastery of organization skills.  In 1991, I was elected president of the Students Union of Xi'an Jiaotong University out of more than 10,000 undergraduates. During the summer holidays in 1992, as a representative of Xi'an Jiaotong University, I attended No.21 Conference of All China Students Federation held in Beijing and was elected one of five executive presidents of this nationwide student organization by representatives from all over the country.  My management capabilities were well cultivated in the extracurricular activities at university

To bring my potential in management into full play, I am eager to pursue an MBA in the United Sates where new ideas about management are constantly generated.  Kellogg is a great education center as illustrated by the ranking of business schools.  I believe that the culture of the school sets it apart from the others.  For example, teamwork is taught extensively at Kellogg.  That is something highly valuable after school.  With good cooperative working style, Kellogg graduates will be greatly appreciated by their employers.  I am sure that I can learn a lot from Kellogg students who represent various experiences, interests, talents, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

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