On July 27, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier Li Qiang of the State Council conducted a field investigation on the construction of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. During the investigation, Premier Li Qiang visited Volvo Construction Equipment (China) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Volvo Group, and investigated the entire process of Volvo remanufacturing and inspected the latest product line of Volvo Construction Equipment.
Volvo Group’s global senior vice president, president of Volvo (China) Investment Co., Ltd. Ma Jun, president of Volvo Construction Equipment Investment (China) Co., Ltd. China Region Chen Lin and director of Volvo Construction Equipment Investment (China) Co., Ltd. Zhan Xu participated in the reception of the premier and his party.
The company’s leaders briefly introduced Volvo Group’s main business in China to the premier, emphasizing the positive impact that Volvo Construction Equipment’s relocation of its Asian headquarters to Shanghai in 2019 has brought to the group’s development, as well as how the company has used the system innovation of the free trade zone to achieve breakthrough development.
During his investigation in Shanghai, Premier Li Qiang said: “We must thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on the construction of free trade zones, vigorously implement the free trade zone promotion strategy, actively explore new explorations of high-level opening up to the outside world, and continuously make new breakthroughs and accumulate new experiences. Foreign enterprises and China’s development are mutually successful. We should tell a good story about foreign enterprises’ development in China and attract more foreign enterprises to cultivate the Chinese market.”
2023 is the 45th anniversary of reform and opening up and the 10th anniversary of the construction of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. It is also a key year for comprehensively promoting high-quality development. With the advancement of industrial digitalization and sustainable transformation, intelligent manufacturing and remanufacturing development continue to accelerate. As a global leader in transportation and infrastructure construction integrated solutions provider, “low-carbon environmental protection” and “sustainable development” concepts are always rooted in Volvo Group’s business development genes. We will continue to accelerate the green development of China’s business under the guidance of the national goal of “promoting green transformation of development mode, accelerating the construction of new energy system, and promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction in key areas”.
In the future, Volvo Group and its various business areas will continue to provide more green and efficient products, technologies and services for our Chinese customers, work together with upstream and downstream industry chains, and jointly promote high-quality development of the industry and even the whole society with practical actions.
