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4th International Business Leaders Advisory Council for the Mayor of Beijing
Speech by Motorola Senior Representative Mr. Eugene Delaney
Honorable Mayor Liu
Respected Guests
Fellow Advisors
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of our Chairman and CEO, Mr. Christopher Galvin, I would like to thank you for the honor to participate in this prestigious Advisory Council.
I would also like to express my sincere congratulations to your Excellency. Under your outstanding leadership, the City of Beijing has attained tremendous achievements in 2001, especially fulfilling the Chinese Olympic dream with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Beijing is the focus of the world right now, and we are encouraged by the report Vice-Mayor Liu just delivered on the Progress of Preparation Work for 2008 Olympics.
Beijing has great opportunities and challenges ahead, I would like to put forth our suggestions broadly categorized as: The Greater Beijing, The Hi-Tech Beijing, and The Digital Beijing:
First, Greater Beijing
- With the explosive economic growth in China, especially along the coastal areas, for example, the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta, Beijing needs to continuously adapt to the competitive environment. I submit the following suggestion: Establish a Greater Beijing Area
- With a Trans-Regional Logistics Hub: including Beijing - Tianjin - Tangu to combine and leverage their relative strengths in Air (Airports) - Land (Train and Highway networks) - Sea (Seaport), to cover passenger and freight transport. This will avoid repetitive infrastructure investments and improve intra-regional cost and efficiencies.
- And with a Human Resource Center: Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei combined have the largest number of prestigious Universities in China, offering a rich pool of highly educated young talents
- These combined with a large and rapidly growing affluent consumer market in the area, will further strengthen Beijing's competitiveness and attractiveness to potential foreign investors
Second, Hi-Tech Beijing
- In addition to moving manufacturing facilities into China, multinational corporations have begun moving R & D functions into China as well. Beijing continuing to foster an environment for innovation is essential.
- Motorola has benefited from this environment, Motorola China R & D Institute was established in 1999, and now encompasses 18 R & D Centers, over 1,000 Staff, and RMB 2.5B in investments.
- In 2000 we achieved CMM SEI Level 5 Certification, the highest recognition in software quality possible. It is a First for Beijing, a First for China, and to date the only one in China.
- Our R & D Center in Beijing designed and developed our PDA Phones in China and exported them throughout Asia and the World
- A critical concern of the High-Tech and knowledge-intensive industry is the treatment and protection of Intellectual Property Rights.
- With China's entry into WTO, immediate implementation and enforcement of the new IPR laws and regulations would greatly enhance China's competitive positioning as well as protect the fast-growing domestic high-tech industry, for example the high-tech enterprises in "Zhong-Guan-Cun" in Beijing.
- To Foster an Environment for Hi-Tech, Beijing needs to build up Venture Capital management mechanism and continue to expand preferential policies such as: tax incentives; allow companies to expand scope of business to cover System Integration Services; and allow outsourced products and solutions to be sold in the domestic market with preferential policies.
And Finally, Digital Beijing
Beijing's 10th 5-year plan, outlined the timely goal of building "a Digital Beijing", below are our suggestions for three systems to help you achieve this goal:
First, Shared Digital Trunking Network
- Beijing is the site of many large conferences and international events.
- Also, China is in the process of migrating from multiple small analog trunking systems to shared digital trunking system
- A shared digital trunking system will satisfy the needs of Beijing and the various industries, before, during, and after the Olympics
Second, Unified Emergency Communications Center
- In metropolitan cities, like Beijing, the handling of emergencies such as public security, fire control, flood fighting, and disaster relief needs timely and effective coordination of multiple government departments
- A Unified / Centralized Command and Control Dispatch system together with Government Radio Network are effective means to tackle these issues
And Lastly, Accelerating the Construction of Broadband Networks
- With economic globalization and the exponential growth of IT industries, the demand for faster internet and multimedia content access mandates the development of broadband networks
- The most effective way to accelerate broadband deployment is through upgrading of the existing cable TV networks. Additionally this can be leveraged as the infrastructure for future Digital TV, which would be crucial for a digital Olympics in 2008
In Conclusion, as always, Motorola will continue to focus on our development in Beijing and on building our unshakable strategic relationships with the government, our customers, enterprises, universities, and research institutes in Beijing.
Finally, on behalf of Motorola, I would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Mayor Liu and to the Beijing Municipal Government for your years of unwavering support. And, we look forward to our continued partnership.
Thank you!
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