In less than a year, Midea's Global Innovation Park project has completed the procedures from subject registration, land transfer to project commencement. At the site of the centralized commencement of major projects in Shanghai held today, Fang Hongbo, chairman of Midea Group, could not hide his joy: "Shanghai's concise, efficient, professional and thoughtful government service level has impressed Midea, and has repeatedly convinced us that Midea's choice is correct. ”
Midea Shanghai Global Innovation Campus is located in Qingpu District, West Hongqiao District. Fang Hongbo said that the Hongqiao section where the project is located is the fulcrum of Shanghai's western spatial development, undertaking the historical task of integrating Shanghai's western space, and is the third economic growth level outside Shanghai's central urban area and Shanghai's Pudong. At present, Hongqiao is building an international open hub, building an international central business district and a new platform for international trade center, and Midea Shanghai Global Innovation Park is highly compatible with the positioning of Qingpu District to actively develop high-tech enterprises. "As an innovative technology group, we are very much looking forward to giving full play to our R&D advantages here, especially creating a better future with young scientific and technological talents."
"Only by making continuous progress in the future-oriented strategic layout can we occupy the commanding heights in the competition." Regarding the positioning of the Innovation Park, Fang Hongbo said that this will be an important strategic measure for the Group to build a "2+4+N" global R&D network system on a global scale, "2+4+N" refers to the Foshan Global Innovation Center, the Shanghai Global Innovation Park, the United States Louisville, the United States, Milan, Italy, Stuttgart, Germany, and the Osaka R&D Center in Japan, as well as 22 R&D centers around the world.
Relying on the regional advantages of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, the Shanghai Global Innovation Park, which will be completed four years later, will become the global operation headquarters and innovation core of Midea, and form a north-south R&D dual core with Foshan Midea's global innovation center, accelerate the speed of Midea Group's independent R&D and innovation in the future, and boost Midea's development strategy of "comprehensive digitalization and comprehensive intelligence". At the same time, it will link up with 26 R&D centers around the world to continuously output the most important and innovative digital and intelligent innovation achievements, helping Shanghai's digital and intelligent industrial innovation and high-quality economic development.
From the signing of the contract to the land transfer, and then to today's construction, Fang Hongbo was deeply infected by Shanghai's good business environment and strong atmosphere of innovation and entrepreneurship.
"We have met a lot of science and technology postgraduates and students with dreams here, which makes us very excited and full of expectations." Fang Hongbo said that Midea has always put talents first, and has been striving to create a better institutional environment, do a good job in employee care, and create an open and diverse culture, hoping to attract the best talents in the world and be happy to see them burst out of creativity in Shanghai Innovation Park in the future.
As a veteran home appliance company, through years of independent transformation and upgrading, Midea Group has successfully transformed from a single brand, a single category, and a single domestic operation enterprise to a multi-brand, multi-category, and global operation technology group. In the past five years, the cumulative R&D investment has exceeded 40 billion yuan, with more than 15,000 R&D personnel, and the authorized invention patents rank first in the global home appliance industry.
If you look far ahead, the road will be longer. Fang Hongbo said that in the future, Midea will firmly seize the opportunity of Shanghai's domestic circulation center node and domestic and international dual-cycle strategic link construction, and introduce 8,000 to 10,000 high-end talents from all over the world to settle in Qingpu's "science and technology city above the forest", focusing on the three major industrial sectors of smart home, industrial Internet and intelligent supply chain, and continuously pushing scientific and technological innovation to a new height.