From an unknown border fishing village to a world-renowned international city, from the experimental field of reform and opening up to the vanguard of scientific and technological innovation, over the past 40 years, Shenzhen has broken the ice and written one miracle after another. Today, Shenzhen is accelerating the construction of the world’s leading important advanced manufacturing center as the starting point, to build a more global influence of the economic center city and modern international metropolis.

Along the way, Siemens has actively integrated into the local economic development, helped a number of outstanding enterprises to achieve digital transformation, supported the construction of intelligent infrastructure such as local rail transit, Yantian Port and Shenzhen Bao ‘an International Airport, and carried out in-depth cooperation with Shenzhen University of Technology, Shenzhen Technician College and other institutions to integrate Chinese and German industry and education. To cultivate digitally-skilled talents for key industries in Shenzhen and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Just today, Dr. Xiao Song, Executive Vice President of Siemens Worldwide, Chairman, President and CEO of Siemens China, and the company’s management team made a special trip to Shenzhen for talks with Meng Fanli, Deputy Secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee. The two sides exchanged views on further deepening cooperation in the fields of digital economy, intelligent manufacturing innovation research and development and application, as well as low-carbon sustainable development, and conducted in-depth discussions on the practical implementation of digital platform interconnection projects.

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Meng Fanli welcomed Siemens to further increase investment and business layout in Shenzhen, explore more new businesses and new formats, deepen and promote pragmatic cooperation between the two sides in more areas, and continuously achieve more mutually beneficial and win-win results. We will continue to create a first-class business environment and support enterprises to achieve better and greater development in Shenzhen.

“As a high ground for high-level opening-up, Shenzhen provides valuable development opportunities for multinational enterprises like Siemens with its strong scientific and technological innovation strength, talent pool and market potential.” “Leveraging the localized value chain and global resources, we will use Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform, as a fulcrum to help Shenzhen become a global digital pioneer city and support the Greater Bay Area in building a high-quality development demonstration site,” said Dr. Xiao.

Earlier, Siemens and the National Climate Strategy Research and International Cooperation Center jointly released the “Shenzhen Emerging Industries Low-carbon Transformation Development Research Report” (edited version), to provide policy recommendations and carbon reduction technology routes for Shenzhen’s emerging industries to enhance low-carbon competitiveness. At the same time, Siemens is cooperating with Shenzhen Municipal Development and Reform Commission and Baoan District to build a joint innovation laboratory for additive manufacturing, which will mainly serve the local mold, medical, electronics and other equipment manufacturing industries in the future.