Cummins (China) Investment Co., Ltd. announced that Liu Xiaoxing, general manager of the former Dongfeng Cummins Engine Co., Ltd., has officially become the executive director of strategic planning and joint venture cooperation of Cummins (China) Investment Co., Ltd. In his new position, he will focus on expanding Cummins' partnership in the medium- and heavy-duty engine sector and develop and implement a future-oriented strategic plan to further expand Cummins's market presence in China.
Liu Xiaoxing will be responsible for Dongfeng Cummins's related business and strengthen Cummins's partnership with Dongfeng; manage Xi'an Cummins's related business and develop Cummins's partnership with Shaanxi Auto; he will also be fully responsible for Cummins China's strategic and business development plans.
Liu Xiaoxing joined Cummins in 1996 and has served as legal adviser to Cummins China. Since 2000, he has served as deputy general manager and general manager of Dongfeng Cummins, demonstrating excellent capabilities, enthusiasm for work, and farsightedness. He has far-reaching influence on the development of Dongfeng Cummins and Cummins China market. He established a good partnership with our joint venture partner and Dongfeng Cummins' largest customer, Dongfeng Motor Company. While maintaining the leading share of the Dongfeng market, he also led the Dongfeng Cummins team to successfully develop the non-Dongfeng automotive market, as well as industrial sectors including construction machinery and power applications. A diversified customer base has laid a solid foundation for the sustainable development of Dongfeng Cummins.
In the past 9 years, Liu Xiaoxing has always been committed to the construction of Dongfeng Cummins product line and customer support capabilities, further strengthening the company's market position. In 2008, the production and sales of Dongfeng Cummins Engine reached 162,000 units. It has become one of the largest medium and heavy-duty diesel engine manufacturing bases in China, and it is also Cummins' second largest engine production base in the world.
Cummins in China
The history of Cummings and China dates back more than half a century to the 1940s. On March 11, 1941, the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, signed the Lease Act and provided wartime assistance to 38 countries, including China. The "Lending Act" includes military defense patrol boats equipped with Cummins engines and military trucks.
At the end of 1944, a Chongqing company sent a letter to Cummins Corp. seeking to establish commercial ties and conduct localized production of Cummins engines in China. Erwin Miller, general manager of Cummins Engine Co., expressed great interest in this letter. It is hoped that Cummins will build a factory in China after the Sino-Japanese War. For reasons known to all, Mr. Miller's idea can only wait until the 1970s 30 years later. With the gradual relaxation of Sino-U.S. relations, it is expected to become a reality.
Cummins invests US$310 million in China. As the largest foreign investor in China’s diesel industry, Cummins’ business relationship with China began in 1975. Mr Cummins’s chairman, Irvine Miller, visited Beijing for the first time. One of the earliest US entrepreneurs to seek commercial cooperation in China. When China and the United States established diplomatic relations in 1979, China’s opening to the outside world began. The first Cummins China office was established in Beijing.
Cummins was one of the earliest western diesel engine companies to produce engines in China. In 1981, Cummins started to produce engines in the Chongqing engine plant. In 1995, Cummins' first Chinese joint venture engine factory was established. So far, Cummins has a total of 26 organizations in China, including 15 wholly-owned and joint ventures, and employs more than 7,000 employees. They produce engines, generator sets, alternators, filtration systems, turbocharging systems, and exhaust systems. Post-processing and fuel systems and other products have a service network of 12 regional service centers and more than 300 authorized dealers.
Cummins has long established a strategic alliance with large Chinese companies to achieve common development. As the earliest foreign-funded diesel engine enterprise to come to China for local production, Cummins has established four engine joint venture plants with leading companies of commercial vehicles in China, including Dongfeng Automobile, Shaanxi Automobile Group and Beiqi Foton, for more than two decades. Cummins 18 Of the 11 engine series, 11 have been produced locally in China.
Cummins was the first foreign-owned diesel engine company to establish an R&D center in China. In August 2006, the engine technology R&D center set up by Cummins in cooperation with Dongfeng Corporation was officially opened in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
Cummins's sales in China exceeded US$2.3 billion in 2008, a 33% increase over 2007, and China has become Cummins’ largest and fastest growing overseas market.
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