Having clear and unified
goals and sharing common
values, the highly cohesive
teamof the Group will step
forward andmaximise
the interests of our
stakeholders.
NewWorld Development Company Limited
CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT
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CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT
To Our Shareholders,
In his academic collections, Karl Ritter, a famous German
geography educator and the founder of Human Geography
as a branch of modern Geography, stressed that Geography
was the scientific study of the frameworks and theories
of the delineation of space and place, revealing the
uniqueness of a region by studying the interrelationship
between geographic phenomena; and that a region had
its own unique form and position and played a role in
the development of mankind and its cultural behaviour,
describing humanity by a nature-based approach. Such
notion of analysis which blended and integrated the factor
of the physical environment had led to the subsequent
emergence of Political Geography and Geopolitics, deeply
influencing the development of researches which pointed
to geographic environment as a factor determining
the physical and mental state of mankind as well as
human distribution, social phenomena and its course of
development.
During the long-standing development of mankind, an
individual would, at different development stages and
under the particularities of culture and environment, flexibly
blend his unique living culture and mode by integrating
personal and collective experiences, to pave his own
distinctly individual way of life. It is always contemplated
in an entrepreneur’s mind as to how to pave way for the
perpetual development of an enterprise. Mingling elements
which are distinctly existent in a particular era and turning
them into the unique strengths of an enterprise is the key
to solution.
Take the history of China’s development as an example. In
his
An Introduction to the Cultural History of China
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, Ch’ien Mu, a Chinese Studies maestro, pointed
out that Chinese culture had undergone various stages of
development and generally been able to integrate different
culture in a positive way, under the attitude of being “vividly
and extensively keen, and willing to accept and assimilate
new foreign materials for nourishing its own old tradition.”
