Day 4 - Lunch-in with Mr. Nee

Mr. Nee is the Regional Director of IE Singapore's branch office in the South China region.

During the session, he gave us an overview of the role of IE Singapore in international trade as well as the history and purpose of the entire organisation.

IE Singapore has 500 staff in 37 offices across the world. 7 of which are in China, with one office in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Maccu, with substations in Qingdao and Dalian.

We also learnt that Guang Zhou accounts for 1/4 of China's foreign investment, and 1/3 of the country's foreign trade.

The biggest lesson we all walked away from the session was, as what Mr. Nee told us, that we can have all the money in the world, but if we don't have the brains or the motivation to work and make things work, we'll never succeed.

And he also told us to bear in mind that we should always retain our values as who we are as a Singaporean and as a person.

His advice for Singaporeans thinking of investing overseas? "Don't lose your values, principles and sense of integrity.