The Motorola-SDPC Center for Enterprise Excellence held a meeting on its achievements in Beijing on September 9, 2002, at which the center was hailed by the SDPC as an example of mutual collaboration. "The Motorola-SDPC Center for Enterprise Excellence has been playing a significant role in enhancing enterprise management, promoting the reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and elevating the competitiveness of enterprises in our country," said Zhang Guobao, Vice Chairman of the SDPC.

Ma Dexiu and Xu Qin, Director-general and Deputy Director-general respectively of the Department of High-tech Industry Deve- lopment of the SDPC, and Deputy Director-general of the Foreign Affairs Department of the SDPC Ma Xin were present at the meeting.

The Motorola-SDPC Center for Enterprise Excellence SOE training project is of far-reaching significance for China's SOE. The center is accommodating the country's needs as well as those of the enterprises and the implementation strategy for development of China's western region, and has produced fruitful results. Since its establishment in April 1997, the center has sponsored 44 training sessions providing training to 3,169 mana- gers from 953 enterprises in 26 provinces and municipalities across the country. So far 1,052 managers from 351 SOEs in China's west have received training at the center.

Through the training, a large number of Chinese enterprises have successfully joined Motorola's global suppliers network. Such cooperation not only enables Motorola to purchase technology-intensive products in China, but also effectively upgrades the management, technology and quality of enterprises in China and enhances their competitiveness in the international market.

"The SOE training project is a commitment made by my father, Robert Galvin to President Jiang Zemin and to China," said Chris Galvin, Chairman and CEO of Motorola. "Cooperating with Chinese enterprises benefit both Motorola and China. Motorola shares in the responsibility to accelerate the development of the electronics and communications industries in China."

Also present at the meeting were Gene Delaney, Motorola Executive VP and GRRO President, Pat Canavan, Senior VP of Motorola Inc., Tim Chen, Chairman and President of Motorola China, former Chairman of Motorola China P.Y. Lai, Tom Sun, GM of Motorola University External Partnership Asia Pacific, and Jenny Wang, VP Finance of Motorola China, as well as some 200 government officials, representatives of enterprises and teachers working at the center.