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Tell us about your professional aspirations and how you plan to realize them.

My goal is to become one of China's best businessmen ever. I am glad to say that I have been taking very solid and substantial steps towards that goal. As a graduate from Beijing University's business school, I have received probably the country's best possible undergraduate education in business. Upon obtaining my Bachelor's Degree in business, I chose to take up a job with a company rather than go into graduate studies right away, as I understood the importance of hands-on experiences. I needed to apply what had learned from the books to the real world first before I should embark on further studies.

In the three years I have been working with Tigerta, I have been promoted from the position of a rookie office worker to the position of a general manager for one of the company's most important branches. In the process, I have acquainted myself with both how a Chinese is typically managed and how a modern business along the Western model is managed. Furthermore, I have learned how to maintain a Chinese business' presence on foreign soil. There are not many Chinese people of my age who have had such colorful experiences.

Perhaps my most important preparation will come through my MBA education at Harvard, a cradle of some of the world's most important businessmen. I have accumulated significant experiences in doing business, and I would now like to sit back and look at those experiences reflectively in light of the world's most brilliant business models, principles, and conceptual frameworks.

I hope that what I learn at Harvard will shed light on how China's state-owned enterprises can turn in a profit, and what kind of role I can play in reforming these state-owned enterprises. If I can make a significant contribution to the country's endeavor to make its state-owned enterprises profitable, I will probably have no trouble in being recognized as one of the best Chinese businessmen.

As was required at the time, I underwent a full year of rigorous military training after I was accepted into the Beijing University. That helped to instill endurance and self-discipline into my character. With that, I have lived a life of strong principles and impeccable integrity. The training also helped to make me physically healthy. All these qualities - endurance, self-discipline, integrity and a healthy body - will be my assets as I seek to reach my goal.

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