Do Buddhism, Confucianism and Christianity share similarities that can actually be reconciled? For many foreign students in China, different cultural backgrounds are an obstacle in their career path in the Middle Kingdom. With this in mind, Tsinghua University has launched a new program called "China Roots," a series of lectures featuring noted scholars with a deep understanding of both Chinese and international cultures, to reveal the mystery of the thinking of Chinese to foreign students.

Let's follow Damin to join a recent on-site company visit of these students.

A group of international students from Tsinghua University visits Zhongguancun, China's Silicon Valley. There, an employee from Beijing Huaqi Information Digital Technology Company gives a presentation on the history, culture and vision of his company, the No.1 producer of electronic consumer goods in China.

The students all come from the Economics and Management School of China's prestigious Tsinghua University. This is their first year in Tsinghua, as well as in China. They came from different countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and many others.

Victoria Macha, from Germany, one of the international students, says she finds today's corporate visit very useful.

This on-site company visit is part of a new program at Tsinghua called "China Roots," an effort to help international students to understand local culture and their business environment.

Professor Gao Xudong, one of the initiators of the program, further explains why they started this program.

To achieve this goal, the school has held a series of lectures over the past few months. Actually, Professor Gao Xudong himself gave a lecture in this program recently, which focused on "management thinking" in China.

One of the students, Winston Wei, from the U.S., says he enjoyed Professor Gao's lecture a lot. Through living in Hong Kong, Wei has a relatively better understanding of both Chinese and Western culture, but he still says the lecture on management thinking was inspirational in bridging the cultural gap.

The next plan for the Economics and Management School is to invite more renowned professors and noted practitioners to take part in the China Roots program, to share their China experience and business cases.