Having
a running car manufacturing company in any country is not only a symbol of how
far a country has come but also the fact that there is a lot of technology
involved in this industry. It also
belongs to the manufacturing sector and can be a proxy for the manufacturing
capability of a country.
Xu Jianyi was born on
December 24, 1953 in Nanjing, Fushan City in Shandong Province. As has been the
practice he joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in June 1986. Xu began
working in 1970. He graduated with a specialty of automobile from Jilin
Industry University. Xu also earned a Master’s Degree in Holland Maastricht
School of Management.
He
has solid grounding when it comes to automobiles. Xu was named Designer of No.
1 designing office, chassis design section in FAW R&D center in December
1975. He also has international exposure having been a visiting scholar at the
American Engineering Technology United Co., and Ford Automobile from January
1988 to September 1990.
Xu
rose through the ranks. Among his positions include being Deputy General
Dispatching Leader at FAW Group in June 1995. He was named Deputy General
Manager of FAW VW in January 1996. In September 2000 Xu became a standing
member of the CPC FAW Group Committee and Deputy General Manager of FAW Group.
What
is unique about business executives in China is they also hold political
positions. Xu was appointed Assistant Jilin Provincial Governor and member of
the CPC Jilin Provincial Government team in November 2003. He also became a
standing member of the CPC Jilin Province Committee in May 2007.
As
to the company he now heads it was founded in 1953 and currently employees
133,000 individuals worldwide and sells products in 70 countries. The company
has totals sales in excess of 7 million vehicles worldwide. FAW is one of the “Big Four” Chinese
automakers. Xu heads very important
company indeed. 
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