On October 22, Ren Xuefeng, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee and Li Bo, Deputy Mayor of Chongqing Municipal People’s Government met with the panel led by George Oliver, Chairman, and CEO of Johnson Controls.

Johnson Controls, with the headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the US, is the leader of globally diversified technologies and the industrial circle. It has more than 120,000 employees worldwide who serve customers in over 150 countries or regions. With global sales of USD 30.1 billion in 2017, it ranked 399th in the 2018 Fortune Global 500 list.

Johnson Controls fulfills its commitment to building smart cities and communities through constructing smart buildings creatively, making energy solutions efficient, integrating infrastructure, and a new generation of transportation systems and making them fit perfectly with each other. Due to the company’s excellent industry practice experience in smart cities, sustainable urban development and low-carbon urban construction, its smart building solutions are applied in 90% of the world’s super high-rise landmark buildings, and its batteries are used by one out of every three cars worldwide. It has 11,000 employees, 12 plants, three R&D bases, more than 100 branches, and 128 RCOs in China. For seven consecutive years, it has been honored as one of the “Global 500 Enterprises Making Contributions to China” and one of the “Outstanding Employers in China.”

Chairman George Oliver said that Johnson Controls is willing to give full play to its technical advantages, strengthen exchanges with Chongqing, jointly set up an innovation center with Chongqing University and cooperate with the city in such fields as smart cities, green smart offices, regional refrigeration, smart hospitals and renovation of old urban areas. The memorandum signed this time shows the company’s sincerity and a strong desire for cooperation with Chongqing.