Li Dongsheng TCL Group founder, chairman and chief executive officer, was elected vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce in November 2017. Eleventh, the 12th National People's Congress, honorary president of Guangdong Province Chamber of Commerce.
Li Dongsheng, chairman and CEO of TCL Group Co., Ltd., is an old friend of Guangzhou and this is his third time participating in the "Fortune Global Forum" held in China. "With a Learning Attitude," Li Dongsheng, at the "Guangzhou Fortune" Global Forum has gained a lot of business cooperation, but also further strengthened TCL's internationalization.He commented that Guangzhou has great potential for development, especially the economic foundation and social and humanities are very accumulated, due to the "Fortune" Global Forum held in Guangzhou More gorgeous eye-catching.
Guangzhou and Cisco signed the potential of industrial Internet and smart manufacturing cooperation agreement
South are: You are an old friend in Guangzhou, this time to participate in the "Fortune" Global Forum have any new feelings?
Li Dongsheng: I participated in three Fortune Global Forums in China for the first time in Shanghai and for the second time in Chengdu, which was the third time that I attended the party held in Guangzhou Tower and also took part in Pearl River Night Tours I feel very shocking Guangzhou I often come, this time because of the "Fortune" Global Forum, Guangzhou even more brilliant eye-catching.
South are: the future of any investment plan in Guangzhou?
Li Dongsheng: This time we have signed cooperation agreements with some enterprises. For example, we signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Cisco Systems on industrial internet and smart manufacturing. This will be of considerable help to our future development of artificial intelligence and intelligent manufacturing.
South are: how do you see the development potential of Guangzhou?
Li Dongsheng: First of all, from the economic base, Guangzhou's economic base has accumulated over the years, in many industries, such as automobile, petrochemical industries have considerable accumulation.In addition, as the capital city of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, its social and cultural aspects The accumulation of more profound, such as education, health care, community services, these are particularly advantageous place in Guangzhou.
Global Development TCL's future overseas business revenue growth will be higher than China's business
Nandu: At the opening ceremony, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message, referring to China as the defender of economic globalization. Are you as encouraged as a participant?
Li Dongsheng: In the message of Chairman Xi's letter of congratulation, I think it is a pledge to the world that China will be more open and establish a community of human destiny. China will treat all investment in all countries in an open manner and welcome the trade of all countries. In the past few weeks, the Chinese government announced The further reduction of tariffs is relatively large. This shows that the Chinese government is taking concrete actions to open up its own market to play an active role in global trade. Contrast to some countries' efforts to strengthen trade protection, it is a great contrast.
Nandu: Can you share TCL's global experience? What are the new ideas?
Li Dongsheng: Our global development philosophy is to participate in the local economy by exporting our industry and experience as well as investing in. TCL earned 46% of its sales revenue from overseas markets in the past 100 billion sales last year We are a Chinese company with relatively high degree of globalization.
In addition, our business development in the countries along the Belt and Road is underway and expanding in scope and has gone beyond the traditional Silk Road. I believe TCL's future overseas business revenue growth will be higher than that of China business Growth, become a truly global enterprise.
Artificial Intelligence Enterprise automation is an inevitable trend, but we will not lay off a large number of employees
Nandu: Many traditional appliance manufacturers are very concerned about unmanned factory Do you think automation will bring about a reduction in labor, resulting in a large layoffs?
Li Dongsheng: For enterprises, intelligent, automation is an inevitable trend now more advanced factory can do basically no one, as we Huaxing Optoelectronics, the entire workshop is about more than 100,000 square meters, you do not see To a few people, labor productivity and the competitiveness of companies are constantly improving, but we do not want to lay off a large number of employees, it is a natural process, companies need to help employees improve their professional skills to meet the requirements of new production technologies TCL, for example, has a number of training programs to assist grass-roots employees and help grass-roots managers continually improve their technical, managerial and production skills to adapt to this change.Of course, proper employee turnover is unavoidable for a company.
South are: how do you see the Internet + empowerment, artificial intelligence, big data and other practical applications in these years? TCL in this regard what action?
Li Dongsheng: The Internet economy has developed particularly rapidly in these two years, and its impact on the economy as a whole is also huge. In this block, artificial intelligence is likely to make a disruptive breakthrough. TCL has invested in a 'Unmanned Store' project for five years and currently Has opened a few shops in Guangzhou.On TCL, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, big data is a big development direction, we have been doing this preparation.
With the opportunity of Fortune Global Forum this year, we also signed a memorandum of cooperation with some of the leading foreign companies in this field and hoped that we could conduct business synergy with some international companies in this field in the future to enhance the capability of China's smart-building.