China noted as 5,000 years of the history of civilization, as my view, the valuable is not in the length of the years, but, in the length of the continuous written records - the wisdom of the accumulation of the experiences, the lessons of the successes and the failures.

    In about 8,000 years ago, the characters have emerged in China, since then, the ancient people of China wrote down the events, the thoughts, the experiences of success or failure on the historic monuments, bronzes, bamboo slips and so on. These records help us to review the development trajectory of China.

    After a long primitive society, in about BC 2070, the first state Xia emerged in China. After times Dynasty replacement, in BC 1046, Zhou dynasty was started.

    Since the throne could only be passed to one son, the King of Zhou had to give certain area of land as fiefs to other sons, and then the sons gave certain area of own fiefs land as fiefs to their sons, in this way, from generation to generation, formed more than 100 large and small vassal states.

    The birth of The Art of War

    In BC 771, the Zhou was out of control. The selfish of human animal nature began to exert freely, the wars of plundering and occupying were one after another in between the vassal states.

    In BC 514, after continuous 257 years chaotic wars, the most of the vassal states were destroyed or merged. From the map of China in 5th century BC, we can count that only there about dozen of states were left.

     The map of China in 5th century BC, the state of Qin located in the left side

    The rich experiences of wars, especially, the tragedies of too many states were destroyed provided clear lessons that, for a state, prosperity or decline, or even to be destroyed were just a matter of one step wrong.

    The experiences and the tragedies have spawned the birth of the famous book on the military strategy and tactics - The Art of War. Today it has been taken as efficacious military Bible and used for commercial competition world widely.

    The writer was Sun Tzu (BC 535- 470).  His Great-grandfather and grandfather was both the famous warrior of the time. In such a family, since childhood, Sun Tzu interested in studying the art of wars. 

      Right: A copy of modern imitation of Bamboo Book of <The Art of War>.     

    During the time, Zhou dynasty has always existed, however, it can not effectively control the state, and the war was continuously. 

     The Birth of China 

    At that time, Qin was a weak vassal state located in Shanxi province China today.

    In 361 BC, the new monarch of Qin determined to make the state stronger; therefore, he issued an order for recruiting competent people from all of the states.

    Shang Yang, a famous Legalist, from the state Wei came to Qin, and the talks about national affairs with the monarch continued for 3 days and nights endlessly. The monarch appreciated the opinion of Shang Yang very much. In 356 BC, Shang Yang was appointed to reform the old social system.

    He established a law system according to the Legalism, which focused on the enhancement of the military force and the materials production for military logistical supply. This might be the earliest and most comprehensive law system world widely.

    At that time, people had no any sense in compliance with laws. In order to improve the unordered social situation, Shang Yang put a long wood at the South gate of the city, and announced that: who can move the wood to the North gate, would get reward of 12 gold cakes (Φ5.1Cm 260G 99%Au). People did not believe that was true, no one was willing to try. Then Shang Yang increased the reward up to 50 gold cakes. Finally, a man moved the wood to the North gate with a mind of trying, but he immediately got 50 gold cakes.

    Thus, Shang Yang established the trust for that what government announced in the minds of the citizen, and the reform was quickly and smoothly spread.

    One of the laws was that made 20 title of nobility to reward those who contributed to the state.

    According the law, the soldier who beheaded an enemy will obtain a prime rank of the title with Material Rewards: a certain area of farming land and a house with several servants. Beheaded more enemy will get higher rank title with more awards.

    In the ancient war with cold weapons, the mortality rate was almost in the two sides of the war. It said that killing 1000 enemies, the winner side will lose 800 people at least. A person once went to the battlefield, it meant to face the death. However, China’s history books described that, the citizen of Qin heard that will start the war, they eagerly wanted to go to the battlefield impatiently, simply did not care the matter alive or death.

    In the battlefield, they did not like to wear the helmets and armours to protect them selves, because of that would reduce their running speed. They were left hand with a head of enemy, and right arm tucked a captive, to courageously chase enemy - their preys and their awards - the farming land, the house, the servants and the distinguished social status.

    The incentive rewards made weak Qin state stronger and destroyed other states to form a unified nation – China. It was the origin of the name of the China today.

    Well, what are the business of The Art of War and the formation of China with Canada?

    It is vital essential.

    At the start of the The Art of War, the writer Sun Tzu was straight to the vital point:

    "The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”

    Today, here, I would like to say that:

    In the Era of agricultural economy, the geographical space is living space. The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.

    In the Era of market economy, the marketing space is living space. The art of governance is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.

    The governance here, I particularly refer to the government governance and the corporate governance, since that, in nowadays, the formulation of government policies in political and economical will greatly affect the development of enterprises, they are closely linked and inseparable.

    Starting from this consideration, recently, I wrote a number of articles.

    Aug. 09, 2014, Economic Sanctions is a tragedy of idle Street Boys Self-Castrating.

    Aug. 15, 2014, Canadians' living space is being destroyed by the Overeating Politicians.

    Aug. 17, 2014, Economic sanction on Russians is sanctioning on Europeans actually. 

    In the topics of above, the main target of the economic sanction of each others is on the government, but the actual impacts are on the life of the nationals and the operation of the enterprises. Especially, the decline of the enterprises will badly impact on the employment and revenue, and thereby further impact on the life of the nationals.

    So, I said that the formulation of government policies will greatly affect the development of enterprises and further affect the daily life of citizen. They are closely linked and inseparable.

    On other hand, in the management of modern enterprises, the method of the incentives from Ancient China will still possess significant value, since the nature of ancient people and modern people is similar, and no matter whether is the East or the West.

    Here, I introduce the experience of 2500 years ago China is meaningful for Canada today.

    The main purpose of this article is to make Canadian a better life from the perspective of rationally making strategic policies, and the enhancement of the corporate management.