On July 20, the high-quality development summit forum of China's top 100 light industry enterprises with the theme of "Towards a world-class enterprise and serving the people's better life" was held in Beijing. The list of China's top 200 light industry enterprises in 2022 was released on the spot, and Midea scored 98.07 points, ranking first again!
"China's Top 200 Light Industry Enterprises" has a high authority and extensive influence in the industry, and is an important criterion to measure the development vitality of China's light industry enterprises. As a leading enterprise in light industry, Midea has once again been highly recognized by the China Federation of Light Industry by virtue of continuous scientific and technological innovation, high investment in R&D and the introduction of high-end professionals.
Adhere to the strategy of leading science and technology, and optimize the global innovation system and scientist system
Under the traction of the leading strategy of science and technology, Midea has always adhered to the innovation of scientific and technological innovation to drive the development of enterprises, focused on building globally competitive R&D capabilities and R&D systems, laid out and invested in cutting-edge scientific and technological fields such as building technology, robotics and automation, artificial intelligence, new energy storage, medical and health, and invested more than 50 billion yuan in R&D in the past five years, including more than 12.6 billion yuan in 2022, and continued to strengthen investment. At the end of May this year, Midea Digital Technology Industrial Park and Midea Innovation Technology Industrial Park laid the foundation stone, and the second phase of Midea KUKA Intelligent Manufacturing Science and Technology Park was put into operation, with an investment of more than 10 billion yuan, focusing on zero-carbon parks, intelligent manufacturing, energy management, next-generation refrigeration technology, industrial robot core components and other core, cutting-edge and most potential business sectors of Midea, so as to achieve independent and controllable key core technologies.
Midea has accelerated the deepening and upgrading of the innovative R&D system, set up 35 research centers in 12 countries around the world, absorbed global research talents, vigorously introduced high-end talents, and currently has more than 20,000 R&D personnel, and has established a global R&D scale advantage through the "2+4+N" global R&D network. In China, the Global Innovation Center of Shunde Headquarters and the Shanghai Global Innovation Park are the core; Overseas R&D centers in the United States, Germany, Japan, and Italy are mainly based on R&D centers in the United States, giving full play to the advantages of location technology, integrating global R&D resources, forming global R&D capabilities with complementary advantages, driving talent density and thickness with leading science and technology strategy, enhancing the comprehensive strength of overseas R&D centers, and enhancing the popularity and reputation of brands and products in the local area through in-depth research on user needs.
While strengthening the global R&D layout, Midea focuses on building an open innovation ecological platform, integrating global superior technology resources by deepening the implementation of technology projects, forming a global innovation system, paying special attention to the cultivation of scientist system and scientist culture, and expanding the R&D ecological network by integrating various resources such as science and technology enterprises and scientific research institutes. As of June this year, 8 academician workstations (rooms) have been established, 19 strategic cooperation academicians have been introduced, more than 60 provincial and ministerial enterprise technology centers, engineering centers, design centers or key laboratories, and more than 200 docking cooperation projects, involving green, energy-saving, health, intelligent, robotics and automation and other technical fields.
Build a green whole industrial chain to help light industry accelerate the realization of the dual carbon goal
As a firm practitioner of green and low-carbon, Midea actively responds to the national dual-carbon strategy, promotes the group's "green strategy", builds a whole-process green industrial chain around the six pillars of "green design, green procurement, green manufacturing, green logistics, green recycling, and green service", realizes the application of green and low-carbon technologies through technological innovation, helps energy conservation and emission reduction throughout the life cycle of products, deeply leads and participates in the formulation of green standards, and promotes all categories of products to pass the national green product certification; Implement the "3+1" standardization strategy, promote technological standardization around technological innovation fields such as green, energy saving, intelligence, health, comfort, and convenience, strengthen the formulation and revision of international standards, promote the rapid application of scientific and technological innovation achievements with standardization, and promote enterprises to accelerate the realization of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality". In 2022, Midea led and participated in the formulation of 110 green standards for various countries and industries, covering carbon emissions, green product evaluation, etc. At the same time, on the basis of referring to relevant national and industry standards, Midea has formulated 16 categories of green product enterprise standards to drive the green transformation of the industry with standards.
In May 2022, the ESG Committee of Midea Group was established to coordinate and promote environmental, social, corporate governance and other work to strengthen the sustainable development of Midea. At present, the green and low-carbon business has deeply penetrated into Midea's major business segments, such as smart home business group, Kelu Electronics, Hekang New Energy, Welling Auto Parts under the industrial technology business group, Building Technology Division, and Ander Zhilian, which has launched home energy solutions, large-scale renewable energy storage solutions, industrial and commercial energy solutions, low-carbon park integrated energy solutions, low-carbon supply chain solutions, etc.
In the future, Midea will continue to firmly implement the national dual carbon strategy and the group's green strategy, continuously improve and optimize the whole process of the green industrial chain, help the upgrading of the intelligent manufacturing industry internally, empower the industrial chain externally, lead the new future of green development, and contribute to the sustainable and high-quality development of the light industry.