More local Chinese employees are expected to go into management
More local Chinese employees are expected to go into management
Recently, when accepting a reporter to interview, on April 1, this year just as asano sensitive male agms group President, says fusion is agms have been business development strategy, and the fusion of the international market, the first thing to start from the fusion of people.
The integration of people is challenging
Xu is the only person in the global investment layout that has been a local executive in China.
Although the company lags behind European and American enterprises in localization, xu has clearly had a long-term consideration in this regard.
Mr Shino told reporters that about 10 per cent of the staff in China are now in China, and the integration of these employees with the Chinese market is the most tangible path.
Founded in 1922, xu deformed group, in the development history of more than 90 years, gradually started from hydropower generation, in line with the changes of economic development and the needs of The Times, to carry out diversified business. From the 1960s to synthetic fibre and petroleum chemistry, the 1970s began to dabble in building materials and residential buildings, and in the 1980s joined medicine, medical devices and electronics. Since then, it has extended to emergency medical treatment. Today, the group business mainly involves chemical textiles, residential building materials, medical treatment and electronics and other four fields, the business scope is spread all over the world.
As the world's top 500 companies, xu achieved the highest sales and operating profit in the fiscal year 2013, with a combined sales volume of y1897.8 billion, up 13.9% year on year. Operating profit was 143.3 billion yen, up 55.9 percent.
Introduced in 2011 mid-term business plan "ForTomorrow2015" agms, to actively promote in the global market has the competitive advantage of the business at the same time, from the "healthy and comfortable life" and "in harmony with the environment" the perspective of expanding the business, strive to be "green energy" and "living life" and "health care" and other related fields by "creating new social value" to expand business scale.
According to the plan, xu is aiming to achieve a target of y2tn in sales and operating profit of y160bn in fiscal 2015.
To achieve this goal, it is inevitable to expand the global market and deeply cultivate the global market. Deep tillage also means integration.
Mr. Shino said that xu became a lot of business units, and a consistent business philosophy was to create something unprecedented. So it has always been through the integration of industry and economic society and the integration of industry to form new business direction. "The first is hydropower, then the production of chemical fertilizer, then the fibre, and then it gets bigger and bigger, into housing, healthcare, electronics and so on. The various divisions are merging to create new products and possibilities."
And now, as the global economic growth, this trend also has a great influence for enterprise activities, therefore, deeper integration with the local market, also become the agms further momentum to promote the development of industry. Among them, China is an important sample market.
In China, xu's group has about 20 subsidiaries and branches in the production and sales of high functional textiles and water treatment membranes, medical devices and electronic materials. Agms, moreover, many products, such as Japan's market share in the first food plastic wrap - BaoXian "xu", "electronic compass" used in the smart phone, etc., are widely used in people's lives.
China is becoming an increasingly important market and a competitive manufacturing base for global markets.
It is not easy to merge, but the shallower admits that it is a challenging but necessary approach.
The "ForTomorrow2015" is being successfully implemented, shino told reporters. Even the y2tn target could be reached in 2014, with operating profit expected to reach y150bn this year.
Not worried about a slowdown in China's economy
Since the fiscal year 2014, xu has changed the system of the company, forming four business systems representing four career areas. Mr Xu said the change was aimed at "clarifying the company's operating system and allowing the group to operate more quickly".
He graduated from the pharmaceutical department of the university of Tokyo in 1975 and has been in the field of medical medicine. 2003 agms Pharma company executive member, the member of the standing executive service, 2008, banning service 2010 agms Pharma company presidents and agms coke li medical ban, as agms company President in April 2014.
At present, xu is considering setting up the next medium-term business plan from the fiscal year 2016. Earlier in an interview with the media, asano, said after the 2016 fiscal year, in order to new growth, chemical textile business will accelerate, including fiber, high-performance polymers, growth in the field of high performance chemicals, consumer products, the development of new production technology, advance the product use, change product structure, etc.
In addition, we will accelerate the response to social changes of residential and building materials, and push forward the commercialization of various research and development themes of the electronic industry. In order to become the third pillar of the chemical and residential career, medical medical services will implement the international growth strategy and accelerate the research of new drugs.
However, the rapid development of the Chinese market also faces a huge challenge, which is that the Chinese economy is entering a new normal and the growth rate is slowing down. In the context of economic restructuring, China has said goodbye to years of rapid growth. China's gross domestic product growth rate has been below 8% since the first quarter of 2012, according to the data.
In the history of Japan's economic development, shino said, it is also the process of development, deceleration and redevelopment. Therefore, for China, it is bound to experience such a curve. "We are not worried about China's current slowdown."
Asano has also said, however, China's current economic growth rate decline, the appreciation of the renminbi, etc., also poses a challenge to the enterprise, while the "China staff are all very good, but how to adjust our strategy, is also a subject".
Environmental safety first
However, regardless of how to adjust the development strategy, shino said, environment and safety are the first, the second is the quality, the third is the cost. "In the case of xu, co-existence with society is a precondition, so there can be no accident." Mr. Shino said that xu would not do anything that would give priority to environmental, security and quality.
Xu's investment in environmental protection is a big number every year, and statistics show that in 2013, xu had invested 12 billion yen in environmental protection.
'there must be pressure to balance costs,' Mr. Shino said. 'but we still need to adhere to the principle of environmental safety first.'
In xu's business map, there is a grand plan to cut emissions. In 2010, Mr Xu also set a target for 20 years of emissions cuts: 10 per cent of carbon dioxide reduction (compared with 1990) and a 15 per cent cut in greenhouse gases.
Many of the products that have been developed are environmental protection, such as the exchange membrane, which is the ion-exchange membrane salt electrolysis process. This technology is mainly used in the field of caustic soda production, and the electrolytic device is greatly reduced compared with the traditional mercury method and diaphragm method, which does not use harmful substances and improve the environment.
According to the data, xu's technology has cut emissions by 39 per cent compared with traditional mercury laws, 26 per cent compared with the diaphragm method, and 17 per cent compared with the exchange membrane law.
Since corporate activities involve a large amount of chemical use, the company has been using ISO14001 for preventive environmental protection activities in order to avoid environmental pollution accidents. In addition, xu is also implementing the relevant measures to realize low-carbon society and circulating society, and actively protect the diversity of life.
