Welcome to Shanghai, Dr. and Mrs. Hill. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jianxin Hong, I am deputy managing director of the Sino-American Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd. I’ve long heard of you and, as a matter of fact, I referred to your research findings in a couple of my papers during my graduate studies.
It gives me such a great pleasure to meet you and your family here in Shanghai and I’m very glad that you will be working with us for the next six months. We’ll provide you with two lab assistants and if necessary, we would like to invite one of your associates to join us.
If you don’t mind, we’d like to accommodate you (put you up) at the Holiday Inn, which is located in the downtown area, a forty-minutes drive from our lab. The company will pay for the hotel rooms. Our guest house, a small family-style apartment building, is also available to you if you decide to move out of the hotel. The guesthouse is located in Zhangjiang High-Tech Park of Pudong on the other side of Huangpu River, a beautiful and peaceful environment that has never failed to attract any visitor.In any case, I hope you and your family will enjoy your stay in this city.
We will do everything we can to accommodate you and make you comfortable.If you should encounter any inconveniences in your life and work, do not hesitate to let me know and I will be very glad to help you out. Our managing director will host a reception banquet in your honor tonight, and we would like you and your family to come to the dinner this evening to meet our managing director. I will see you again then.