On March 2, Fang Hongbo, Chairman and President of Midea Group, met with Wan Min, Chairman of COSCO Shipping Group, and his party at the group headquarters.
Chen Yangfan, Deputy General Manager of COSCO SHIPPING Group, Zhang Wei, General Manager of COSCO SHIPPING Container Company, Wang Jianguo, Vice President of Midea Group, Bin Li, General Manager of Midea International Logistics Platform, and other relevant persons in charge of both parties attended the meeting
During the talks, the two sides reviewed the overall cooperation since the signing of the strategic cooperation agreement, and discussed the future overseas layout of Midea and COSCO Shipping to jointly create a new model of supply chain and industrial chain integration.
Since the signing of the strategic agreement between the two parties in January 2021, Midea and COSCO SHIPPING have given full play to their advantages in cargo sources, resources, networks and other aspects in their respective fields, promoted resource sharing, mutual benefit and win-win results, and carried out extensive cooperation in shipping trunk lines, overseas innovation projects, full-link digital construction of logistics, end-to-end international logistics solutions and other aspects, and each project has achieved phased fruitful results.
Fang Hongbo expressed his gratitude to COSCO SHIPPING Group for ensuring the stability of Midea Group's supply chain in the past two years, and hoped to continue to consolidate and promote the comprehensive strategic partnership. Combined with the key directions of Midea's overseas layout, the two sides will continue to deepen and expand global cooperation and digital construction to ensure the stability of the supply chain and industrial chain of the regional supply region.
Wan Min said that COSCO SHIPPING has always adhered to the fundamental purpose of serving customers, and hopes to continue to maintain the depth and breadth of cooperation with Midea Group. COSCO SHIPPING will further improve the layout of the global resource network to match the needs of the network, promote the integration of global Internet of Things and blockchain technology into the cooperative business, provide end-to-end solutions for Midea Group, and promote the integration of the industrial Internet to help the enterprise achieve the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality.
In the future, the two sides will continue to uphold the principles of mutual benefit and common development, and continue to increase the depth of strategic cooperation. Promote the optimization and reengineering of the integrated operation process of import and export logistics in front of the domestic port, build logistics supply chain innovation projects in many places relying on overseas business layout, and jointly build a digital supply chain control tower to ensure the stability and security of Midea Group's global breakthrough business supply chain.