China’s railway and urban mass transit market becomes spectacular and dazzled
2013-10-17 16:58:27
Summary:China’s railway and urban mass transit market becomes spectacular and dazzled.
China’s railway and urban mass transit market presents with the world’s most fierce competition. It is unparalleled in terms of market share, potential, demanding, product variety, and number of users. Almost all of the world players in the industry have established their presences in the China market, and China has already developed a comprehensive and integrated railway and urban mass transit equipment manufacturing industry and service system. The result of this is increasingly robust and complicated competition with the coexistence of competition and cooperation. The market has become spectacular and dazzled.
The size of the China market can accommodate numerous manufacturers from all over the world, but this won’t last very long. With market development and the increasingly pressurized competition, some payers would be forced out – a process of survival of the fittest, one of the basic rules in nature.
Until today, foreign companies enter the China market in various ways, and all the existing patterns for competition and cooperation in the world, except acquisition, are everywhere in China’s railway and urban mass transit industry. These include direct importing/exporting, whole owned foreign enterprise, joint ventures, collaboration, consortiums, suppliers, and so on.
In addition, Chinese manufacturers are gearing up to expand onto the international stage.
As a result, enterprises from both China and abroad compete and cooperate with each other in the China market and also in the international market. It is certain that both Chinese and foreign enterprises will coexist in a spirit of competition and cooperation in the global market, and the competition and cooperation that exists in the Chinese market will be undoubtedly integrated into their global strategies.
Win-win has long been touted in corporate cooperation, but it is often neglected or consciously or unconsciously forgotten in reality. It’s not easy when it comes to putting a Win-win strategy into real effect.
Common interest is the foundation of cooperation, not unlike the same tangential velocity of gears at the meshing point, without which, friction arises. It requires mutual understanding and a willingness to consider from the other’s perspective if common interest is to prevail. Over 50% of the conflicts in cooperation between Chinese and Western companies are resulted from misunderstandings and lack of communication.
For Chinese people involved in Sino-foreign cooperation, regardless of whether the employer is Chinese or foreign, a fundamental responsibility is to help with mutual understanding between the parties, to accurately interpret the culture, business practices and the game rules. It’s absolutely inadvisable to complain about the Chinese in front of foreigners and to complain about foreigners in front of the Chinese, because it will lead to more serious misunderstandings and ultimately to difficulties in solving problems or even failure in the cooperation, which would be harmful to both parties.
During the decade since the World Railway Development and Research Society was founded, it has provided advice and consultation for the development of China’s railways and urban mass transit industry, and has played an important role as a link, a bridge and an “interpreter” between China and the rest of the world and among enterprises, governments, customer and manufacturers. I hope and I believe that Society will have a brighter future.
Jianwei Zhang
President of Bombardier China & Vice-chairman of the World Railway
Development and Research Society
The size of the China market can accommodate numerous manufacturers from all over the world, but this won’t last very long. With market development and the increasingly pressurized competition, some payers would be forced out – a process of survival of the fittest, one of the basic rules in nature.
Until today, foreign companies enter the China market in various ways, and all the existing patterns for competition and cooperation in the world, except acquisition, are everywhere in China’s railway and urban mass transit industry. These include direct importing/exporting, whole owned foreign enterprise, joint ventures, collaboration, consortiums, suppliers, and so on.
In addition, Chinese manufacturers are gearing up to expand onto the international stage.
As a result, enterprises from both China and abroad compete and cooperate with each other in the China market and also in the international market. It is certain that both Chinese and foreign enterprises will coexist in a spirit of competition and cooperation in the global market, and the competition and cooperation that exists in the Chinese market will be undoubtedly integrated into their global strategies.
Win-win has long been touted in corporate cooperation, but it is often neglected or consciously or unconsciously forgotten in reality. It’s not easy when it comes to putting a Win-win strategy into real effect.
Common interest is the foundation of cooperation, not unlike the same tangential velocity of gears at the meshing point, without which, friction arises. It requires mutual understanding and a willingness to consider from the other’s perspective if common interest is to prevail. Over 50% of the conflicts in cooperation between Chinese and Western companies are resulted from misunderstandings and lack of communication.
For Chinese people involved in Sino-foreign cooperation, regardless of whether the employer is Chinese or foreign, a fundamental responsibility is to help with mutual understanding between the parties, to accurately interpret the culture, business practices and the game rules. It’s absolutely inadvisable to complain about the Chinese in front of foreigners and to complain about foreigners in front of the Chinese, because it will lead to more serious misunderstandings and ultimately to difficulties in solving problems or even failure in the cooperation, which would be harmful to both parties.
During the decade since the World Railway Development and Research Society was founded, it has provided advice and consultation for the development of China’s railways and urban mass transit industry, and has played an important role as a link, a bridge and an “interpreter” between China and the rest of the world and among enterprises, governments, customer and manufacturers. I hope and I believe that Society will have a brighter future.
Jianwei Zhang
President of Bombardier China & Vice-chairman of the World Railway
Development and Research Society
Key Words:China,railway,urban