Getting Chinese Kids to School in One Piece

摘要

John McKinney sat outside a Beijing Starbucks, sipping coffee and snapping photos of the traffic with his iPhone. He was looking for school buses, or what passes for them in China. A dozen different school-bound vehicles rolled by on their morning runs. Some were minivans, others were shuttle buses painted yellow. Few looked as if they would meet the safety standards used in the U.S. since the 1930s-and therein lies a potential business proposition for McKinney, head of Navistar International's bus business.