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Navigating China: China Recreation District Discusses the China Government's New Virtual Worlds Infrastructure Plans

China is preparing for the future today by reengineering its national infrastructure approach for business operations to include virtual world technologies such as those that we are learning about at this conference. We envision being able to use virtual world technologies to simulate business operations, environments, communities, as well as social interactions and collaborative education.

Through the leadership and sponsorship of the China Recreation District (CRD), we will build a virtual national infrastructure. This infrastructure will enable us to integrate existing real world business operation technologies with new virtual world technologies. Through collaboration with key technical partners, we will also ensure that our infrastructure is able to quickly and seamlessly host and integrate future virtual world technologies as they become available.

In this presentation, we will explain Chinas policies for a national virtual infrastructure as it relates to our goals, how we intend to build the national virtual infrastructure, how we intend to integrate various industry and enterprise real world and virtual infrastructures, and what our status currently is with respect to our plans and obtaining partners.

Since this is a new national initiative, and since we are looking for additional partners to join our initiative, if what you see and hear interests you or may be of interest to your companies, please contact us so we can arrange a time for you to come to China to discuss partnering with us to build this infrastructure as well as doing other business related to Chinas future.

Presented by 賴志迢（Chi Tai Robert Lai）

Mr. Robert Lai is the Chief Scientist for the Beijing China Recreation District (CRD). He is responsible for the:
Design and development of the business platform for multiple industries for both real world and virtual world applications,
Software development automation for network based business systems, and
Strategic planning and application of advanced technologies.

Prior to becoming Chief Scientist for CRD, Mr. Lai was
Visiting Professor at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Peking University in China,
Chief Process Scientist at the Software Productivity Consortium (SPC) in the United States of America (USA).
President of the International Software Process Constellation in the USA.

Mr. Lai has more than twenty (20) years of CMM and CMMI Experience, and has been an international consultant to many top corporations throughout the world, including:
Lucent, Bell Laboratory, Unisys, and Boeing in the USA
Mitac, Tatung, Wu-Han Steel, and Shanghai Wonder Group in China and Taiwan
Fujitsu, Hitachi, Omron, NTT, and NEC in Japan
Nakia in Finland, and
the National strategic planning for software industry、Bangalore software park technology planning, financial planning and international strategy in India

In addition to his leadership and consulting roles for individual companies, Mr. Lai has also participated in key working groups and associations that have had an impact on national and international standards for process and quality. His professional activities include being:
Director for the Chinese Software Quality Association in Taiwan.
Advisor for the Software Process Definition Working Group at the Software Engineering Institute in the USA
Advisor on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in the USA
Advisor to the STARS Process Definition Group in the USA, and being a
Key Member of the IEEE P1074 (Software Development Process) team

Mr. Lai has numerous publications to his credit including two books:
Software Product-Line Engineering, with David Weiss, published August 15, 1999 by Addison Wesley, and
CMMI Distilled, which Mr. Lai had translated to Chinese and published by PEARSON Education in August 2004.

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