/ News channel / "Among the 65 countries along the Belt and Road, the business of Hisense global overseas branches and offices (including agents) has covered 55 countries, accounting for 85% of the total number of countries along the Belt and Road." On the afternoon of June 21, at the "Belt and Road" Trade and Investment Enterprise Fair of the Third Multinational Company Leaders' Summit in Qingdao, Jia Shaoqian, president of Hisense Group, said that Hisense has had close economic and trade cooperation with "Belt and Road" countries in recent years, and the internationalization process has gradually accelerated. In 2021, the business revenue is 175.5 billion yuan, and the tax paid in Qingdao is nearly 8 billion yuan. The industrial output value in Qingdao is 62 billion yuan, and the tax contribution and industrial output value rank first among Qingdao enterprises. Jia Shaoqian introduced that since the beginning of this year, in the face of the impact of the epidemic at home and abroad, overseas market demand shrinking, global supply chain tension and many other adverse factors, the always stable Hisense has shown strong resilience, the group from January to May revenue 73.1 billion yuan, revenue and profit still achieved a relatively fast growth. Currently, Hisense has 12 research and development institutions, 18 industrial parks, and more than 55 overseas companies and offices. Hisense Group's overseas revenue reached 72.5 billion yuan last year, accounting for 41.3 percent of the group's total revenue, with its own brands accounting for more than 80 percent, and Hisense expects overseas revenue to reach 150 billion yuan in 2025. At the meeting, Jia Shaoqian expressed the deep relationship between Hisense and Qingdao. Jia Shaoqian said that Hisense has been deeply influenced by Qingdao's fashionable, open, confident and international urban character and characteristics. More than 30 years ago, Qingdao was successively approved as a separately listed city in the national plan and one of the first 14 open coastal cities. Hisense has developed into a famous brand in China and laid a preliminary foundation for internationalization. Since 2018, with the holding of Shanghai Cooperation Summit, especially the central government's landing of Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone in Qingdao, to build a new platform for international cooperation of "The Belt and Road", it means another deep link between Qingdao and the world, and opens a window of opportunity and time for Hisense to become a world-class brand from a first-class brand in China. "Just last month, Hisense independently developed color ultrasound products, which filled the gap in Shandong Province, successively entered the market in Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates and other Belt and Road countries, and the first batch of 20 orders were signed." Jia Shaoqian said that in addition to household appliances, Hisense's B2B products and services such as business display, intelligent transportation and precision medicine, also take advantage of the country's "One Belt, One Road" policy, and continue to be applied overseas. Hisense's intelligent transportation products have also been applied in Southeast Asian countries, and began to layout in Eastern European countries. In the next step, Hisense Group will deepen its trade with the SCO countries through the platform carrier of the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone and support the construction and development of the zone with concrete actions.
