2021 Review of Dong Mingzhu: Talent, Quality and Green

“Freshmen in the Workplace”, “The First Quality Person in Guangdong”, “Layout of New Energy”......

At the ending of 2021, we tried to sum up the past year of Dong Mingzhu and found that as an entrepreneur, Dong has always had a clear goal in three key words: talent cultivation, quality management and low-carbon development.

1. As a freshman in the workplace, you need an “all-round boss”

In April, a hot variety show of Hunan Satellite TV revealed the unexpected side of Dong Mingzhu to people.

“She cares about that if the trainees can adapt to the workplace, helps them solve problems in life, and walks along the beach and talks with them”. Different from the previous impression, this powerful woman shows warmth and care everywhere in the program.

As the lens turns, we see Dong Mingzhu is listening to the work reports of trainees with a very strict attitude and ruthlessly pointing out their negligence and deficiencies. It seems that the vigorous “iron lady” that we are familiar with has come back.

Sometimes gentle and sometimes strict, which side is the real Dong Mingzhu?

In fact, Dong has always been gentle and strict in talent training. In Dong’s opinion, enterprises should shoulder the responsibility of talent training, so as to cultivate more excellent talents. Adhering to the concept of independent training, Gree now has 16,000 R&D personnel and more than 30,000 technical workers, providing a broad development platform for scientific research talents, and stimulating the scientific and technological innovation ability of employees with the concept of “no upper limit for R&D expenditure”.

2. For perfect quality, the enterprise needs a quality fighter

“National Advanced Individual of Private Economy in Fighting Against the Pandemic”, “Top 500 Women of Chinese Brands”, “World’s Most Influential Business Leaders”, “Model of Charity”... In 2021, Ms. Dong won many honors.

This year, she has a new label – “The First Person of Guangdong Quality Award”.

In September, the fourth China Quality Award was officially announced. Dong Mingzhu was nominated for the China Quality Award for her outstanding contributions in the field of quality management, and she is also the first person to win this award in the field of quality in Guangdong province.

Under the leadership of Dong Mingzhu, Gree Electric takes perfect quality as its orientation, treats products as works of art, adheres to the high-quality strategy in R&D and manufacturing, and gains wide popularity among consumers with high-quality products.

Since Dong attaches great importance to independent innovation, Gree has continuously overcome key and core technologies, obtained a series of innovative achievements, and formed an overall product R&D innovation system, so as to guarantee perfect quality with core technologies and fine workmanship. Up to now, Gree has accumulatively applied 90,382 national patents, with accumulative 52,330 authorized patents and 33 “World Leading” technologies.

3. Our nation needs a “pioneer” to conduct energy revolution

This year is the 30th year of Gree since its foundation, and also the 10th year for Dong Mingzhu to devote herself into the development of photovoltaic air conditioners.

In April this year, the “zero carbon source” technology jointly developed by Gree and Tsinghua University stood out among 2,100 teams from 94 countries around the world and won the highest award “Grand Winner” in the “Global Cooling Prize”, becoming the only Chinese company to win this honor. According to the experimental data of the competition organizing committee, the “zero carbon source” cooling technology can reduce aircon's climate impact by 85.7%.

The “zero carbon source” air conditioning system realizes the integration of photovoltaic technology, air conditioning and energy storage. Energy storage is an important part, and also an area that Dong values greatly.

Gree titanium new energy, through technological innovation, takes high-safety Gree titanium batteries as the core, continuously explores stable and reliable energy storage products to help build a safe, efficient and clean new energy system.

This year, we seem to have seen a gentler Dong Mingzhu than before. But when facing doubts, she is still resolute as usual. Daring to speak, daring to try, and daring to fight, are still the symbols of this superwoman.

Gree has developed for 30 years. Starting from great achievements in the past, Dong will work together with Gree for a splendid future in the new year.