Shanghai alone had 787 financial institutions with 170 earmarked as foreign-invested in 2009 whereas Beijing boasts being home to 41 of the global Fortune 500 companies. Finance is one of the most important businesses for folks living in Beijing and Shanghai so the opportunities are seemingly limitless for an internship in accounting. If financial institutions aren’t your cup of tea and you’d prefer to do accounting with any of the budding companies in either city, we can arrange that too! Internships can range from catching a glimpse at multi-national accounting, domestic businesses, financial institutions, retail, and the list goes on.

Shanghai and Beijing are major cultural capitals of the world and as such, create many of the world’s advertising strategies if not the advertisements themselves! Advertising uses various media such as television, internet, radio, and publications to promote products and services. Your internship placement will allow you to learn about advertising strategy, branding techniques and account coordination. As part of the creative process you may create story boards, develop media kits, and conduct research.

The textual richness of Beijing and Shanghai architectural history is vast; many buildings are century’s old, seemingly hidden behind a skyscraper built in a few weeks. Beijing is a host-city of many fascinating architectural artifacts from Paleolithic Homo sapiens and its thousands year old history. Beijing is built amidst old temples, gardens, and contemporary cultural centers. Conversely, Shanghai houses the City God Temple, Pudong neighborhood skyscrapers lining the riverfront, the Oriental Pearl Tower, Jin Mao building, among others. Internship placements can find you assessing projects with urban designers, administrative tasks, site visits, and even working in a design studio!

A new skyscraper means a new business in China and so as the rapid expansion of Shanghai and Beijing blazes forward, so do the opportunities to explore domestic or international business. We can offer placements with a company doing business in China or within the international market so interns can the myriad areas of trade and commerce. Shanghai and Beijing both allow you the opportunity to find yourself immersed in one of the highest grossing countries in the world. Internships in China can be found working with teams on a group project, writing research reports, attending important meetings, witnessing a new merger, including many others. A background in Mandarin is preferred. 

An internship in chemical, electrical, or mechanical engineering can give you the opportunity to put all of your hard work in university to the test in an international field of business. Shanghai and Beijing are competitors in the world market for engineering tasks; whether it is has to do with forming new chemical bonds for upcoming products, continuing the trend of environmentally-friendly cars, or setting the trend on sustainable energy – our program in China promises you one-of-a-kind experience in this field. Internships can be found working with a large team, developing models, assisting with current projects, designing your own independent project, or others pending your relevant background experience.

With not only an immensely rich culture history, but a future that often grows before the present, China can provide you with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to explore international entertainment & media. Shanghai has a long history of being leaders in art, cinema, television, and sports where internships can be found within. Beijing’s Beijing Evening News periodical, which is distributed every afternoon, provides residents with information about everything Beijing-related. There are plenty of international-focused magazines as well as television and radio industries. Internship placement can range from dance, newspapers, magazines, television, and radio, among others.

China has been popping up on the world’s map for fashion in the past handful of years for its trendsetting sensibility, fashion-forward cultural practices, and increasing collaboration with fashion shows around the globe. Whether you want to study the historical relevancy of design and its relationship to class in China or the newest trends emerging from Beijing and Shanghai, China can provide you the one-up you may need in your interview after doing this internship. Fashion internship placements can lead you toward being a design assistant, sewing clothes yourself, undertaking research, marketing, and others.

Shanghai is the commercial and financial powerhouse of China and Beijing touts its history as being the first post-industrial city in mainland China. Both cities of our China program boost their own economic successes allowing our interns to explore the vast field of finance and banking. Finance is one of the most important sectors in each city; Beijing’s Financial Street has rows upon rows of buildings housing the most powerful banking institutions while Shanghai features its own enormous Stock Exchange building. Placements can be found in product and business promotion, research, building financial portfolios, among others allowing you to gain a peek inside the world of international banking. A background in Mandarin is preferred. 

You will gain hands-on experience while making a difference in your local community with this medical internship in China. It’s no mystery that Chinese medicine is sought after as alternative practices in Western countries like the United States pop up. The body reacts to medicines available naturally, before mass industrialization, and an internship in China could lead you toward a similar conclusion! Placements can also be in local hospitals, international medical centers and clinics and cover an array of clinical departments such as surgical, neurological, or pediatrics. You can shadow various hospital staff and work in clinical labs to broaden your knowledge of Western medicine and ancestral Chinese medicine. A background in Mandarin is preferred. 

China is a major destination that caters to an international crowd – in its retail offerings, cuisine, cultural tastes, as well as its tourism sector of course. Whether you want to work at one of the larger global hotel branches or you wanted to gain experience specific to China, internship placements are really made according to your previous experience and needs while abroad. With Beijing being home to such cultural sites as The Great Wall and Tiananmen Square, the need for high-quality hospitality is needed just as much as Shanghai’s government and commerce draw for foreign tourists.

As a law intern in China you will work in international legal firms alongside lawyers who work with various clients that cover a myriad of legal areas. You may work on cases involved in mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, intellectual property, commercial litigation and more, depending on your area of interest. The clients you will work with will vary and can include multinational corporations, state owned enterprises, and start-up companies. Your tasks may include general case management, research, clerical support, and writing and preparing legal documents. A background in Mandarin is preferred. 

With such a booming economy, consumers in China are becoming more attuned to the products they are purchasing, creating the growing need for businesses to develop their brands and marketing strategy.  This strategy centers on key segments such as advertising, public relations and event management that work together to create value for the customers and the company itself. Depending on your area of interest, you can work in advertising development, brand management, market research, promotions, and event coordination.

With two densely populated cities and countless relationships to the world around China, it is inevitable that there would be copious non-governmental organizations and non-profit internships to take advantage of. These organizations can range from protecting China’s history and culture, more contemporary organizations handling medical needs of China’s mainland population, advocacy work for disaffected communities, and environmental preservation for instance. The non-profit companies in Beijing and Shanghai may ask for help gaining sponsors for their business to continue, a task interns will assist with, or the non-governmental organization can be working with Mandarin-speaking Chinese folks that are telling their stories. Internships placement can be found in these various fields as well as public relations, marketing, design, etc.

The two Chinese cities combined have a resident population of nearly 43 million people! Between those people and others living within Beijing or Shanghai’s city limits, the need for a manageable real estate is something felt acutely by Chinese citizens. An internship in China can be as dynamic as the real estate industry itself. Our placements have allowed interns to see the different sides of investment property, day-to-day business decisions, company correspondences, and surveying the breadth of how each city’s market works.