U. Eller says:


"Working in "real business conditions", with the challenge to provide valuable inputs for further improvement, was managed well by the Sino-Swiss Project Team. They got into the specific industry environment rather fast, worked very excellent as one team and provided results as expected. We will take their suggestions into consideration for mid-term strategy. Some ideas will be implemented into our action list for immediate realization."

Urs Eller
Managing Director
Phonak (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Shanghai

U. Scheidegger says:


"The Swiss and Chinese students have achieved an excellent result with a wellstructured, very analytical and also very practical consulting report. The recommendations given by the project-team will undoubtedly help Schindler China improve the efficiency of the BSC-System. Congratulations!"

Urs Scheidegger
Chief Financial Officer
Schindler China, Shanghai

Consulting Project China

Consulting Project China (CPCN) is an exciting joint venture field program of the Sino Tongji University, School of Economics and Management SEM, in Shanghai, China and the Swiss University for Applied Science, FHS St. Gallen, in St. Gallen, Switzerland. For one semester, three students of each institutions join together to build a project team, doing conceptual work in China on base of a Swiss company. The results are presented to the customer in a project paper, as well as in a final oral presentation. English, during the whole process, is the official language.



Goals of the program CPCN

  • To enable students to work on an international topic in an international environment.
  • To provide a company located in China and Switzerland with fundamental know-how on a special topic in the field of Business Administration.
  • To transfer know-how in the educational field of International Management Consulting.
  • To strengthen the international reputation and image of the two collaborating institutions.
  • To initiate the process of further cooperation in researches between the China and Switzerland educational fields and profit or non-profit organizations.

SEM and FHS carry out a project for the customer that has been individually defined with the customer in the specialist area of consulting project with in each case a team of three SEM and three FHS students and one coach from each institution.

The team of students shall work jointly on the project. The team members shall maintain contact by means of the Internet, telephone and video conferences, and shall have access to the same databases. They shall meet for one week in Shanghai and for one week in St. Gallen.

The team of students shall prepare a report that is easy to understand with specific analyses and problem-solving proposals in accordance with the project description. The report should contain about 50 and 100 pages (without annexes) and will be introduced by a meaningful Management Summary.

The team of students shall present the results in English in the presence of the customer and of the project coach.

The project starts at the beginning of March and ends with the presentation in the presence of the customer at the end of July every year.

Program Leader

  • Prof. YAO Ming, Director, TONGJI University, School of Economics & Management, Director International Program, EMBA & Executive Education
  • Prof. Peter Müller, FHS St.Gallen, Director Knowledge Transfer Unit WTT-FHS