With the development of China’s ‘One Belt and One Road’(OBOR) Initiative, many Chinese students have chosen Thai universities for foreign study in recent years. As usual, problems of cross-cultural adaptation becoming the primary issues they encounter during their stay in Thailand. Based on a survey of 314 Chinese undergraduates studying at eight universities in the upper northern region of Thailand, this study analyzed the influencing factors of the cross-cultural adaptation process of these Chinese students. It tested the Young Yun Kim’s structure model, which contains six dimensions of determining aspects on international students’ cross-cultural adaptation process. A quantitative research method was applied in this article by using a structured questionnaire as a tool to collect primary data. The data analysis was conducted by using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regressions. The findings indicated that five dimensions, i.e., Communication Competence (CC), Host Social Communication (HSC), Intercultural Transformation (IT), Environment (EN), and Predisposition (PR) are significant determining aspects for the cross-cultural adaptation process of Chinese students. Furthermore, nine influencing factors out of these five dimensions had significant positive impacts on the cross-cultural adaptation process. Therefore they are considered as the main influencing factors.

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Problem statement: This research was conducted due to an increase of agricultural machinery cost for rice production (46.00%) of farmers in Phichit province. Based on an analysis of cost reduction using the method of John Deere, it was found that this may decrease from 46.00-28.50% of the total cost. Thus, there was a question how to mange the agricultural machinery. The objective of this research was to investigate the pattern of managerial administration of farming machinery for rice production, Phichit province. Approach: Research methodology in this research had many steps: Indepth interview with rice farmer members and farmer institution executives having good practice; an analysis of internal and external factors concerning about the managerial administration of rice farmer group; public hearing forum of stakeholders on rice farmer group management and the investigation of decision-making on the selection of management strategies. Descriptive statistics and Pearson coefficient relation were used in this research. Results: Findings showed that there were four models of the managerial administration of agricultural machinery as follows: External hiring, co-investment, networking and participatory maintenance. For the management of farmer group, it should be in the form of networking connecting each subgroup. Also, it should have a coordination center for the planning of agricultural machinery, capital and welfare management. The management was dependent on three groups of strategies: (1) strategy a-the improvement of the managerial administration structure and grouping concept base; (2) strategy b-the development of potential and quality of the managerial administration and (3) strategy c-the creation of atmosphere in the participatory managerial administration of agricultural machinery, respectively. Conclusion: The implementation based on this model caused the farmers have confidence, unity and systematic working and power on the persuasions for group activity participation more than ever.