On February 9, 2023, Midea Group and China Construction Eighth Engineering Bureau signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the group headquarters in the United States, marking a new chapter in the comprehensive deepening of the strategic partnership between the two parties, and the two sides will carry out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation in infrastructure projects, smart buildings, smart parks, photovoltaic energy storage, KUKA robots, medical automation, smart homes and other fields.
Li Yongming, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Construction Eighth Bureau, Han Xingzheng, Deputy General Manager and Director of South China Branch, and Qi Ligang, Chief Engineer; Fang Hongbo, Chairman and President of Midea Group, Wang Jinliang, Vice President, Wang Xinliang, President of Enterprise Business, and Hu Ji, Director of the President's Office, attended the signing ceremony.
According to the strategic cooperation agreement, the two parties will give full play to the advantages of their respective professional fields, promote resource sharing, mutual benefit and reciprocity, build a solid and sustainable strategic partnership, carry out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation in multiple fields, strengthen the joint construction and research of product solutions, and continuously improve the core competitiveness of both parties. To this end, the two sides have also established a multi-level and all-round information communication and other working mechanisms to ensure the effective promotion of strategic cooperation between the two sides.
Fang Hongbo, chairman and president of Midea Group, said that as a member of the national team in China's construction industry, China Construction Eighth Bureau has built a number of high-quality landmark projects at home and abroad for many years, demonstrating its strong comprehensive strength and leading technical advantages. In addition to infrastructure construction, the two sides can also cooperate in low-carbon energy management, digital intelligent park solutions, industrial automation, medical automation solutions and other fields.
Li Yongming, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Construction Eighth Engineering Bureau, believes that the cooperation between the two parties in the Shanghai Global Innovation Park project in the United States is very pleasant, and the advanced design concept can create a masterpiece, and he is very much looking forward to cooperation and common growth in more fields at home and abroad in the future. Midea Building Technology not only has hardware equipment such as HVAC and elevators, but also overall solutions for smart buildings, and the two sides can strengthen cooperation in this area and open up new tracks. In the field of smart homes, it is possible to study cooperation on "high-quality air in residences", etc.
Before the signing ceremony, the management team of China Construction Eighth Bureau visited the "lighthouse factory" Midea microwave oven Shunde factory and the exhibition hall of Midea Group headquarters. Both parties said that they will strengthen product co-construction and research in a variety of user scenarios, test product solutions and continue to improve in the implementation of projects, and provide each other with better products and services.
Yang Pengyu of Midea Group's Building Technology Division, Xu Ning of Shanghai Park Project Office; Su Yawu of the Information Management Department of China Construction Eighth Bureau, Zhang Guangtao of the Procurement Management Department, Ye Xianlou of the Science and Technology Quality Department, Ma Minglei of the Engineering Research Institute, Wang Wenyuan and She Zhibin of the Shanghai Company attended the ceremony.