The programme for the immediate future includes special emphasis upon training young men liding ad not been erected and the for business life in Shanghai. There is at present great demand for young men of ¢l ter who have been trained in commerce. The employment department of the Association is meeting with a steadily growing demand for such men on the part of foreign firms. The graduates of the commercial classes conducted by the Association are snatched up for business positions some months before they have finished their courses of study The demands of to-morrow for well trained men will be greater than the demand of to-day and_ the requirements will be more exacting.
It is being called upon to expand to various parts of the city. The present membership of nearly 4,000 is very largely from the central and northern districts of the city. There is a demand for Association buildings in the southern district and the French Concession and in the western and eastern districts. The business men of these sections are looking to the Association to provide for the young men of these districts the same advantages that are offered in the present building to the young men of the central and northern regions.
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