Multinational Companies Accelerating the Sales Strategy Rearrangement
There is a new trend in the investment by multinational enterprises: to shift their businesses and technical transformation to establishing production bases, the core strategy is first to occupy the huge Chinese market.
Reviewing the short-term investment history: in 1992, most multinational companies merely set up representative offices in China and mainly engaged in trade.
But since 1995, they have shifted to establishing production bases, especially the share holding companies (such companies are the highest form of foreign investment, besides investment and reinvestment, their responsible also includes product agency, the training of personnel, providing information and supplying funds). Such multinationals include Omron, Hitachi, Panasonic, Sanyo, Fujitong, Toshiba, Isuzu of Japan, Siemens, Bayer, Henkel of Germany, General Electric, IBM, Motorola, and Dell Computer of America.
In recent years, multinational companies have accelerated their large investment in China. McDonald's alone has built 52 factories in China. ABB Group established 20 joint ventures. Volkswagen AG set up four large joint ventures and one solely-invested enterprise with a total investment of U.S.$ 2 billion. In addition, Boeing has three large joint ventures, and the key components of 3100 Boeing planes now flying worldwide were made in China. Moreover, with the relocation fever, multinational companies are intensifying their localization strategy of the "root in China".
According to employment records, foreign-funded enterprises favor local professionals. The director of human resources for Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd. says, over 500 their employees are Chinese, and most of them are masters and doctors. To our surprise, more and more senior posts are being taken by Chinese. In the ABB (China) Group, of 5000 employees, nearly ten general managers are Chinese, while foreign senior officials are very few.
In order to ensure that their products keep up with the changing market, multinational companies lay special emphasis on the localization of R & D and the expansion towards the intellectual service field. Some powerful companies have increased their R & D investment and established research institutes in China. A "China fever" has been started by foreign IT magnates.
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multinational adj.多國的, 跨國公司的
accelerate v.加速, 促進
sale n.出售, 銷路, 銷售額
strategy n.策略
rearrangement n.重新整理
trend n.傾向, 趨勢
multinational enterprise跨國企業(yè)
shift vt.轉(zhuǎn)移, 改變
technical transformation技術(shù)轉(zhuǎn)讓
transformation n.轉(zhuǎn)化, 改革, 轉(zhuǎn)換
representative offices辦事處
establish vt.建立, 設(shè)立, 確定
production base生產(chǎn)基地
core strategy核心戰(zhàn)略
core n.果核, 中心, 核心
occupy vt.占領(lǐng), 占據(jù)
share holding companies持股公司
product agency產(chǎn)品代理
training of personnel人員培訓(xùn)
supply funds提供資金
joint ventures合資企業(yè)
solely-invested enterprise獨資企業(yè)
key components關(guān)鍵零部件
relocation n.再布置, 變換布置
fever n.狂熱, 高度興奮
intensify vt.加強
localization strategy本地化戰(zhàn)略
employment n.雇用, 職業(yè)
foreign-funded enterprise外資企業(yè)
favor vt.照顧, 喜歡
professionals n.專業(yè)人員
director n.主任, 主管,
human resources人力資源
master n.碩士
doctor n.博士
senior posts高級職位
general manager總經(jīng)理
senior officials高級官員
intellectual service field智力服務(wù)范圍
research institute研發(fā)機構(gòu)
"China fever""中國熱"
magnate n.巨頭, 富豪
At the end of last year, Microsoft invested U.S.$ 80 million in a China Research Institute specializing in essential research. It also declared recently that U.S.$ 50 million investment will be made in the Microsoft Asian Technology Center in Shanghai, the highest level research institute of Microsoft in China.
Siemens intensifies the localization of key technology. After a century of introducing track communication technology into China, vice president Mr. Burt said, "a century's experience persuaded us that a key factor securing the successful operation is the localization of key components.
There is a new trend in the investment by multinational enterprises: to shift their businesses and technical transformation to establishing production bases, the core strategy is first to occupy the huge Chinese market.
Reviewing the short-term investment history: in 1992, most multinational companies merely set up representative offices in China and mainly engaged in trade.
But since 1995, they have shifted to establishing production bases, especially the share holding companies (such companies are the highest form of foreign investment, besides investment and reinvestment, their responsible also includes product agency, the training of personnel, providing information and supplying funds). Such multinationals include Omron, Hitachi, Panasonic, Sanyo, Fujitong, Toshiba, Isuzu of Japan, Siemens, Bayer, Henkel of Germany, General Electric, IBM, Motorola, and Dell Computer of America.
In recent years, multinational companies have accelerated their large investment in China. McDonald's alone has built 52 factories in China. ABB Group established 20 joint ventures. Volkswagen AG set up four large joint ventures and one solely-invested enterprise with a total investment of U.S.$ 2 billion. In addition, Boeing has three large joint ventures, and the key components of 3100 Boeing planes now flying worldwide were made in China. Moreover, with the relocation fever, multinational companies are intensifying their localization strategy of the "root in China".
According to employment records, foreign-funded enterprises favor local professionals. The director of human resources for Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd. says, over 500 their employees are Chinese, and most of them are masters and doctors. To our surprise, more and more senior posts are being taken by Chinese. In the ABB (China) Group, of 5000 employees, nearly ten general managers are Chinese, while foreign senior officials are very few.
In order to ensure that their products keep up with the changing market, multinational companies lay special emphasis on the localization of R & D and the expansion towards the intellectual service field. Some powerful companies have increased their R & D investment and established research institutes in China. A "China fever" has been started by foreign IT magnates.
Notes
multinational adj.多國的, 跨國公司的
accelerate v.加速, 促進
sale n.出售, 銷路, 銷售額
strategy n.策略
rearrangement n.重新整理
trend n.傾向, 趨勢
multinational enterprise跨國企業(yè)
shift vt.轉(zhuǎn)移, 改變
technical transformation技術(shù)轉(zhuǎn)讓
transformation n.轉(zhuǎn)化, 改革, 轉(zhuǎn)換
representative offices辦事處
establish vt.建立, 設(shè)立, 確定
production base生產(chǎn)基地
core strategy核心戰(zhàn)略
core n.果核, 中心, 核心
occupy vt.占領(lǐng), 占據(jù)
share holding companies持股公司
product agency產(chǎn)品代理
training of personnel人員培訓(xùn)
supply funds提供資金
joint ventures合資企業(yè)
solely-invested enterprise獨資企業(yè)
key components關(guān)鍵零部件
relocation n.再布置, 變換布置
fever n.狂熱, 高度興奮
intensify vt.加強
localization strategy本地化戰(zhàn)略
employment n.雇用, 職業(yè)
foreign-funded enterprise外資企業(yè)
favor vt.照顧, 喜歡
professionals n.專業(yè)人員
director n.主任, 主管,
human resources人力資源
master n.碩士
doctor n.博士
senior posts高級職位
general manager總經(jīng)理
senior officials高級官員
intellectual service field智力服務(wù)范圍
research institute研發(fā)機構(gòu)
"China fever""中國熱"
magnate n.巨頭, 富豪
At the end of last year, Microsoft invested U.S.$ 80 million in a China Research Institute specializing in essential research. It also declared recently that U.S.$ 50 million investment will be made in the Microsoft Asian Technology Center in Shanghai, the highest level research institute of Microsoft in China.
Siemens intensifies the localization of key technology. After a century of introducing track communication technology into China, vice president Mr. Burt said, "a century's experience persuaded us that a key factor securing the successful operation is the localization of key components.