NPR in Chengdu for a Week

Message from Webster University's Director in China:

What better way to celebrate Webster University’s Chengdu MBA Program than listening to NPR about Chengdu:

"All Things Considered" will originate from Chengdu, China, the week of May 19-23. Follow the hosts and producers as they prepare reports for the series.—from NPR website.

Take a look at the advance work from NPR before the start of the Week in Chengdu http://www.npr.org/blogs/chengdu/

And don’t forget to listen in the afternoon for All Things Considered. We were very happy when Time Magazine provided four pages of Chengdu coverage in the 2/07 edition. It was the U.S. edition, not the Asia or Europe edition of Time.

A whole week of origination of All Things Considered in Chengdu is deep, not surface. NPR could have decided on Xi An (terracotta warriors), Chong Qing, close to the famous Three Gorges Dam, but the picked Chengdu, hopefully for the same reasons we picked it six years ago.

A you know, you can listen to NPR online, but for many of you, you’ll be able to hear about Chengdu while driving in a car in West Palm Beach, Washington, D.C. St. Louis, Chicago, or San Francisco. I wish I were there to hear it, but better, I was just in Chengdu a few weeks ago, and will be back next month. In the meantime, work continues at Shanghai, Shen Zhen, Dalian and Beijing.

Rick Foristel