Cheng Meikai: Siemens China has no ceiling

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"Siemens China is no 'ceiling' on the job, from the CEO, the president of the business, more and more Chinese faces among the Siemens executive team, my responsibility is to make the ability of experienced localization staff to grow up quickly, featuring Siemens China and global responsibility. "

———The new president of Siemens ( China ) Co., Ltd. Cheng Meiyu

MRSimens, MRChina

"For the Chinese market, I represent Siemens --- MRSimens; for Siemens Globally, I'm a MRChina." August 5, the new CEO of Siemens North East Asia, Siemens (China) Co., Ltd. President Mei Wei Cheng sit In the Siemens China headquarters building , leisurely but confident enough to face the media in a variety of bombing questions.

Mei Wei Cheng 37-year career, 16 years time is spent in China, including Ford Motor China served as chairman and CEO of GE China. But for Germany, Siemens has 160 years of operating history, the Mei Wei Cheng is Siemens The first Chinese CEO to be selected in China for nearly 100 years.

For Germans who are well-known for rigorousness , this is not only an attempt , but more like a kind of local recognition. “ Siemens headquarters recognized my suggestion that we must constantly strengthen the localization leadership. In fact , Siemens China currently has three core business areas. energy, president of the medical business has been the Chinese people. "Mei Wei Cheng admitted that" Siemens hope is closer to mainland China, hopes to become a more powerful Chinese companies in one. Chinese can do Siemens CEO, this is a signal . "

In fact , despite having served as the head of GE China and Ford Motor Co. , China , in the face of the helm of Siemens China , which sold more than 5.5 billion euros in the year , Cheng Meihao still feels that the pressure is multiplied . On the one hand is Siemens. The business area is too broad , far beyond his brand recognition.

The goal is to double the growth rate of China's GDP

According to public reports, Siemens, Siemens China under the strong leadership of former CEO Richard Hausmann, in the period 2005-2008, the annual business growth rate of China's GDP growth twice that of the same period, as growth in fiscal 2008, Siemens' business in China reached 19 percent, while fiscal 2009, Siemens' sales revenue in China reached 5.2 billion euros. on top of this huge base, to achieve sustained high growth, easier said than done.

But surprisingly, Mei Wei Cheng took office publicly declared its debut media conference, Siemens' business in China's growth target is still twice the growth rate of China's GDP. In other words, fiscal year 2010, if China With annual GDP growth of 9% , the goal set by Cheng Meiyi means that Siemens’ revenue growth in China needs to reach about 18% . Cheng Meikai acknowledged that “a big challenge ” .

In Cheng Meixi's view , the process of urbanization , changes in population structure , and climate change are major challenges facing the global society . Correspondingly , Siemens will provide more solutions in the three major areas of industry, energy, and healthcare . This is Siemens. global, too. specifically, Mei Wei Cheng told the Nanfang Daily reporter in the three core areas of China's main attack, on the one hand he will try to push headquarters to continue to expand investment in R & D investment in the Chinese market, in response to a sharp surge in Chinese demand localization ; on the other hand will be developed based on the local elite, to promote more competitive against local R & D program and its applications. "green-related businesses, will be the growth engine of the future of Siemens' business in China."