Miao Wei

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Miao Wei ( Chinese  苗圩 ; * May 1955 in Changli , Qinhuangdao , Hebei Province ) is an economic manager and politician of the Communist Party of China (CCP) in the People's Republic of China , who among other things was general director of Dongfeng Motor Corporation between 1999 and 2005 and from 2005 until 2008 was secretary of the CCP's Wuhan City Party Committee . Since 2010 he has been Minister for Industry and Information Technology .

Life

Degree, career and general manager of Dongfeng Motor

Miao Wei, the ethnic group of Han heard attended 1972-1974 the eighth high school in Hefei and participated as a member of the Young Guard from 1974 to 1976 in Feixi in the province of Anhui on the Cultural Revolution in part. He began his professional career in 1974 and graduated from 1978 to 1982 at the Faculty of Internal Combustion Engines at Hefei University of Technology . In September 1984, he became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He then became an employee of the Chinese National Association for the Automobile Industry in 1985 and was deputy head of the sales department between 1985 and 1989 and deputy general director of the production department from 1989 to 1993. He then served as the deputy director of the Automobile Department of the First Ministry of Mechanical Engineering between 1993 and 1995, and then studied at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China from 1995 to 1998 .

At the same time was Miao Wei 1995-1997 deputy chief engineer of Dongfeng Motor , a centrally managed company in the vehicle , and then between 1997 and 2001 Secretary of the Party Committee of CCP of this company. He then served as the general manager of Dongfeng Motor from February 1999 to May 2005, and from 2001 to 2005 as the deputy secretary of the company's CCP Party Committee. In September 1999, the Miao central government transferred the state-owned Dongfeng Motor Corporation to turn the economy around. At that time, Dongfeng Motor, the second largest automobile company in China, had 120,000 employees and lost over 500 million renminbi in 1998 . Miao carried out radical reforms, adopted western management methods and formed alliances with foreign automakers Nissan and PST Peugeot Citroën . The company made a profit in two years, and by 2003 its profit had increased to 6.1 billion yuan. In 2004, The Business Week named Miao Wei "Star of Asia," who "transformed Dongfeng from a near-bankrupt manufacturer of military trucks into a profitable manufacturer of trucks and passenger vehicles."

Wuhan Party Leader and Minister for Industry and Information Technology

He took part as a delegate on the XVI. Participated in the 2002 party congress and in 2003 became a delegate of the National People's Congress , of which he was a member for ten years until 2013. He was also a member of the CCP's Hubei Province Party Committee between 2003 and 2005 , and Secretary of the Wuhan City CCP Party Committee between May 2005 and March 2008 . In addition, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the CCP's Hubei Provincial Party Committee from 2005 to 2008, and also served as chair of the Wuhan City People's Congress from 2007 to 2008.

He participated as a delegate on the XVII. Participated in the 2007 Congress and became a candidate for the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP Central Committee ). In March 2008, Miao Wei became vice minister of industry and information technology, and as such was also the deputy secretary of the CCP's leadership group at that ministry from 2008 to 2010. As the successor to Li Yizhong , he took over the post of Minister for Industry and Information Technology in the State Council of the People's Republic of China on December 25, 2010 and was confirmed as such in 2013 and most recently by the National People's Congress on March 19, 2018. Since 2010, he has also been the secretary of the CCP leadership group at that ministry. As Minister for Industry and Information Technology, he is one of the leading economic politicians in China. On the XVIII. At the 2012 Congress , he was elected a member of the CCP Central Committee and has been a member of this body ever since. Furthermore, since 2015 he has been deputy director of the National Leadership Group for the expansion of China's power as a manufacturing country. In October 2016 there were differences in economic policy between Germany and the People's Republic of China due to plans that car manufacturers have to build a certain proportion of e-cars in China according to a schedule, and otherwise accumulate minus points. To compensate, they would have to buy Plus Points from Chinese competitors - and would even co-finance their local competitors through such fines. A letter with a request for clarification, which the ambassador to China Michael Clauss sent to Miao Wei in the summer of 2016, remained unanswered until October, so that the lack of reaction confirms the great German concern that industrial policy goals are also being pursued. During a visit by Federal Minister of Economics, Sigmar Gabriel, to China, the debate about China's investments caused a noticeable resentment, who in Beijing had repeatedly called for “fair investment conditions for our German companies”. This was also the case during his last conversation with Minister Miao Wei, who tried to dispel concerns of German car manufacturers about protectionism in the development of electric cars in China.

In addition, Miao has also been a member of the Central Steering Groups of the CCP's Central Committee for Internet Security and Informationization as well as for Finance and Economics since 2017. At a G-20 summit of digitization ministers in Düsseldorf in April 2017, he explained to the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Matthias Machnig that the transition to the online age must be regulated together. In July 2019, he said at the China Development Forum in Beijing : "The labor supply is declining, labor costs are rising, and we are losing our competitive advantage in the low-wage industries." His country wants to focus on high technologies and innovations in the future.

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Individual evidence

  1. China as a world power: China's most important decision-makers . In: Manager Magazin of March 18, 2013
  2. ^ Miao Wei: Continuity in the department for industry . In: Manager Magazin of March 18, 2013
  3. No trace of opening up: Problems for German companies in China are increasing . In: Manager Magazin from October 31, 2016
  4. Chinese investors in Germany: "Missing reciprocity" - the one-sided buying frenzy . In: Manager Magazin of November 2, 2016
  5. Asia: Inverted World. Ever since US President Trump threatened Germany and China with trade wars, the two states have been looking for similarities. The only problem is: there is too much that separates them. . In: Spiegel Online from April 15, 2017
  6. Alternatives to production in China: Vietnam wins Trump's trade war. The US President wants to force companies to manufacture in the US instead of China. But they prefer to relocate their production to other low-wage countries. For example to Vietnam. . In: Spiegel Online from July 12, 2019