The first "Qian Hu--The Pet Family" shops opened in Malaysia, China and Thailand in 2004.
To keep in closer touch with customers, Qian Hu began selling pet supplies and opening stores.
Credit much of Qian Hu's hard-fought success to the 45-year-old Yap's tireless promotional efforts.
Qian Hu reaches out just as hard to investors, winning a number of awards for financial transparency.
Qian went to the U.S. in 1935 as a student and stayed to work in the rocket program.
Of course, the most closely followed encounter was the one between Mr. Christopher and his Chinese counterpart, Mr. Qian Qichen.
To illustrate the uneven perception of China's supercomputer efforts, Mr. Qian, the veteran supercomputer researcher, holds his palms at hip level.
During an unplanned stopover in London last week, Chinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen had a brief meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Today, 25 years after it began, Qian Hu Corp. is one of the biggest exporters of tropical fish in the world and operates 12 stores around Asia.
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So far this is mostly equipment and supplies shipped overseas for fish fanciers and wholesalers, and Qian Hu has invested in aquarium-gear providers in the U.K. and India.
"The strategy has been never to lead, but to follow" technologically, said Qian Depei, a Beihang University researcher, who has worked for decades on China's advanced computing programs.
Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO, and H.
But what really separates Qian Hu from the many mom-and-pop businesses of the tropical-fish-farming industry is the attention paid to safely shipping such a fragile creature to customers overseas.
These discoveries paved the way for Qian Hu to increase its Arowana production by 20% to 30% every year, and it now supplies roughly a third of the global demand.
Nevertheless, these ancient roads, used for thousands of years and considered to have been 'opened up' by the Chinese General Zhang Qian in the second century BC, had no particular name.
The plan, says Zhao Qian, another manager at Taihe, is to put the Back Dormitory Boys together with their idol, Yao Ming, a Chinese basketball prodigy who plays centre for the Houston Rockets.
Pet ownership is not well established in Asia, and Qian Hu has put a good deal of energy into educating its customers and investors about why people might want pets in the first place.
On the opening remarks of the Forum, UNESCO Tashkent office delivered key-note messages of Mr. Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for Education, and Mr. Arne Carlsen Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.
In a recent paper, Yi Qian of Kellogg School of Management studies the response of branded Chinese shoemakers to an influx of fakes after the government shifted its enforcement efforts to more urgent things, such as stamping out counterfeit food, drugs and alcohol.
For Qian Hu, the key lies in keeping the fish healthy in the first place: "A disease that causes no problem in the fish pond can bloom into the open during travel and cause most or all of the fish to arrive dead, " says Yap.
When a text message informed her that a powerful earthquake had struck the province of Sichuan, she leaned over to the man next to her, a veteran editor named Qian Gang, who had covered previous quakes, and asked him for a rough prediction of the damage.
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