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Review my
Bangladesh (Eastern Refinery) journey
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newest information (Dec.13,2008) (At
bottom ofthe page)
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2008
Candidate of "Touching to China"——WU-LANYU (吴兰玉)
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An
old woman who is seventy-four years old stress honest and credit,
glean and collect scraps for nine years to pay a debt
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| This is my last time journey
to abroad period my job, but it is different with past journey. First,
Bangladesh is a poor country but its population is very many. Its
GDP is only 420 USD (2004),but the population is 135 millions! |
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Population
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Bangladesh
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147570
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135,000,000
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915
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Jiangsu province (China)
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102600
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74,380,000
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725
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| second point, in past, I
was as buyer to import technology, but this time, I was as seller
for contract with a project of the Eastern refinery in Chittagong
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Bangladesh map. Blue arrow
is Chittagong
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The project includes 4 diesel tank
with 13000 stere. This is first abroad project of Sinopec Jinling
petrochemical Corp. In the end of the 1997 year, the project will
be finished and checked and accepted. There are a few problem need
to consult with buyer. So I was received instructions to resolve
the problem with a four persons group. We arrive the Dhaka (The
capital of Bangladesh) by flight on Dec.12, 1997, then transship
a bus to Chittagong
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The rented building just
is a project headquarters. We taken a group photo for memory
with local folks
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This our bedroom, three men
live in a room, put up a mosquito net above the plank bed.
This is a quite hard journey as compared with previous
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five o'clock in the early
morning, spread over the pray sound from loudspeaker. We
have unable sleep again
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We have a lunch in the
headquarters.
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The Eastern refinery is only
refinery (State owned)in Bangladesh. Its capacity is only
33000-bbl/d of crude oil,it is equivalent to Chinese level
in the 1950s-1960s
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Take a group photo in the
site with employees
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This is project site, it
is four diesel tank with 13000 stere, was general contracted
by Sinopec Jinling petrochemical Corp. It was smoothly opened
to use in early of 1998 year
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See the Eastern refinery
from satellite map (See
here)
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Chittagong face to Bay
of the Bengal (see
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Take a photo front the
Bay of Bengal in Chittagong
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Hidden smuggling beer below
a stone of the bank
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In the Dec. 25,1997, we left the
Chittagong to Dhaka for go to Singapore. There are some free time
in Dhaka, so we visit the Parliament building and the independence
monument
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In Chittagong street, its
traffic is extremely chaos
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The Parliament in Dhaka
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Bangladesh is a country with long-standing
history. It was most developed and prosperous country in the 16th
century in the subcontinent. But it became a Britain colony after
18th century. It announced independence in 1971. But unfortunately
its development is very slow. The people's life still is very poor.
I sincerest wish its state flourishing and people rich in the future
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Annex:
A banker to the poor -- 2006 Nobel Winner Dr.Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh)
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Muhammad
Yunus and Grameen Bank for the poor
I stumbled upon this very
interesting and noble deed of Grameen Bank for the poor.
The founder Prof Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2006. (See
here)
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Nobel
Winner Yunus
Economics
professor Muhammad Yunus wasn't afraid to turn the rules
of banking upside down
Editor's
Note: Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus
and the bank he founded, Grameen Bank, which created a
new category of banking by granting millions of small
loans to poor people with no collateral—helping to establish
the microcredit movement across the developing world—won
the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. On its Web site, the
Norwegian Nobel Committee said it awarded the prize to
Yunus, 65, and the bank "for their efforts to create
economic and social benefit from below."
As a young economics professor
at Chittagong University in Bangladesh in 1976, Muhammad
Yunus lent $27 out of his own pocket to a group of poor
craftsmen in the nearby town of Jobra. To boost the impact
of that small sum, Yunus volunteered to serve as guarantor
on a larger loan from a traditional bank, kindling the
idea for a village-based enterprise called the Grameen
Project. It never occurred to the professor that his gesture
would inspire a whole category of lending and propel him
to the top of a powerful financial institution.
Today, Yunus runs Bangladesh's
Grameen Bank, a leading advocate for the world's poor
that has lent more than $5.1 billion to 5.3 million people.
The bank is built on Yunus' conviction that poor people
can be both reliable borrowers and avid entrepreneurs.
It even includes a project called Struggling Members Program
that serves 55,000 beggars. Under Yunus, Grameen has spread
the idea of microcredit throughout Bangladesh, Southern
Asia, and the rest of the developing world.
"At first I didn't think
that what I did had any significance in a broader context,"
he explains. But the mission keeps expanding in scale,
and in the meantime, Yunus has grown intimately familiar
with the unbearable dimensions of global poverty. As many
as 1.2 billion people around the planet lack access to
basic necessities, he explains, and microfinance could
be their pathway out of despair. "Yunus and Grameen
have taken a first step, which has inspired others to
take a look at [microfinance] as a business," says
John Tucker, deputy director of the microfinance unit
at the U.N. Capital Development Fund. (More
see here)
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earned the nickname "banker to the poor" by giving
tiny cash loans -- often the equivalent of a few dollars --
to the poorest of the poor in Bangladesh. That simple idea
grew into an international movement so vibrant that Yunus
was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Peace. Yunus earned a
Ph.D. in economics at Vanderbilt University in 1969. He taught
at Middle Tennessee State University before returning to Bangladesh
in 1972 to teach economics at Chittagong University. According
to a now-famous story, his first loan was given to a group
of very poor women from the village of Jobra in 1974; the
amount was the equivalent of $27. Two years later, in 1976,
Yunus founded the Grameen Bank to make such loans on a wider
scale, mostly to people with no collateral who would not be
served by typical banks. The notion became known as microcredit,
and as it spread to other countries it gave thousands of people
the opportunity to pull themselves out of abject poverty.
Yunus and Grameen were jointly given the Nobel Prize in 2006.
By that time the bank had helped more than six million borrowers,
the vast majority of them women. In awarding the prize, the
Nobel Committee stated: "Lasting peace can not be achieved
unless large population groups find ways in which to break
out of poverty. Microcredit is one such means." (See
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Spreading
Grameen around the world
As strategic global partners, Grameen Foundation
and Grameen Bank fuse their mutual mission, ongoing relationship,
and common vision by sharing knowledge and success models
to accelerate the microfinance industry's impact on the
world's poorest. Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus,
the founder and director of Grameen Bank, is a founding
and current board member of Grameen Foundation. We replicate
the success of Grameen Bank around the world (See
here)
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Charlie
Rose - Muhammad Yunus - Google Video
(See
here)
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2007.3.4.
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A
newest information (Dec.13,2008)
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2008
Candidate of "Touching to China"——WU-LANYU (吴兰玉)
An
old woman who is seventy-four years old stress honest
and credit, glean and collect scraps for nine years to
pay a debt
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A women,
74 years old, a poor elder of Urumchi city of Xinjiang.
Her husband
and son die off in the 1990's, and leave behind a debt
that is for cure diseases--54000 RMB (is about 8000 USD).
When the debtees remain at their to demand payment of
debt, yet they too embarrassed to say it for her poor
plight, But Wu-lanyu responses:
"It is as unalterable principles that pay off all
debt. However so great difficulty, the debt will be all
repay!"
In the 9 years since 1999,
Wu-lanyu gleans
and collects scraps to repay all debt, composed a moving
song with honest
and credit.
Prepaid a finishing stroke
of debt, Wu-lanyu sung daylong songs . After two days,
just her bethink it is very difficulty that these years,
he should have a reward herself. therewith her spent 8
Yuan to buy a pair of cloth shoe in a little market .....(
Original
Chinese page)
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Muhammad
Yunus said: The poor people is more keeping his
word than rich people
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