IBM, the international business machine company, was established in the United States in 19 14. It is the largest multinational company in the information industry in the world. At present, it has more than 300,000 employees worldwide and its business covers 160 countries and regions. In 2000, IBM's global revenue reached more than $88 billion. Over the past 80 years, the world economy has been developing continuously, and modern science is changing with each passing day. IBM has been leading the development of the global information industry with advanced technology, excellent management and unique products, ensuring the all-round demand of users in almost all industries around the world for information processing. As we all know, as early as 1969, the Apollo spacecraft carried three astronauts, shouldering the mission of mankind and landing on the moon for the first time; 198 1 year, the space shuttle Columbia successfully flew into space again. These two historic space flights condensed IBM's unparalleled wisdom. The business relationship between IBM and China can be traced back to ancient times. As early as 1934, IBM installed the first commercial processor for Peking Union Medical College Hospital. 1979, after nearly 30 years of interruption, IBM came to China again with China's reform and opening up. In the same year, the first IBM medium-sized computer was installed in Shenyang Blower Factory after the founding of the People's Republic of China. With the deepening of China's reform and opening up, IBM's business in China is expanding day by day. In the middle and late 1980s, IBM successively set up offices in Beijing and Shanghai. 1992 IBM officially announced the establishment of International Business Machines Corporation China Co., Ltd. in Beijing, which is a wholly-owned enterprise of IBM in China. This move made IBM take a substantial step in implementing its strategy in China and opened a new chapter in its business in China. Subsequently, in 1993, IBM China Co., Ltd. set up branches in Guangzhou and Shanghai. So far, IBM's branches in China have expanded to Shenyang, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Chengdu, Xi 'an and Wuhan, and offices have been set up in Fuzhou and Chongqing, further expanding its business coverage in China. With the development of IBM in China, the staff of IBM China has been growing, and now it has grown to nearly 3,000 people. In the era of rapid development and fierce competition in the information industry, in order to give full play to IBM's all-round advantages, transform the latest technology in the information industry into valuable solutions for users in China as soon as possible, help users to carry out business more effectively and enhance their competitive advantage, IBM has made major adjustments and reforms in organizational structure, management mode, product technology and customer service. Established IBM Greater China; The traditional model based on product division has been changed and the development strategy based on industry division has been implemented. A network of customer service centers has been established in dozens of cities in China, and so on. For more than twenty years, IBM's various information systems have become the most reliable information technology means in many important business fields in China, such as finance, metallurgy, petrochemical, transportation, manufacturing and commodity circulation. IBM's customers are all over China's economy. It is IBM's product development strategy to develop new products with the world-class latest technology and enter the market with the fastest production speed. IBM has a full range of advanced products, which has strong advantages in complex network management, system management, intensive transaction management, huge database, powerful extensible server, system integration and so on. In view of the special demand of China market, IBM has strengthened the development of Chinese software in recent years and set up a Chinese software development center in Shanghai to strengthen cooperation with more China business partners and launch more Chinese software products. 1995 IBM established IBM China research center in Beijing. This research center is IBM's seventh scientific laboratory in the world. Since its establishment, it has made important research achievements in Chinese speech recognition, machine translation, e-commerce and other fields. In implementing the strategy of taking root in China, IBM strives to be a part of China's resources. At present, IBM has established nine joint ventures in China, including Great Wall International Information Products (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Changke International Electronics Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Mass Storage Products Co., Ltd., Beijing Ding Xin Information System Development Co., Ltd., Tianjin Advanced Information Products Co., Ltd., IWC Software Development (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Blue Express Computer Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., IBM Leasing Company and Beijing Jinchangke International Electronics Co., Ltd. In addition, IBM has also set up two wholly-owned enterprises in China, namely International Business Machine Engineering Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen International Business Machine Technology Products Co., Ltd. located in Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, Pudong, Shanghai. In recent years, IBM's international procurement business has made great progress in China. From $654.38+30 million in 0993 to over $2 billion in 2000. IBM's procurement scope in China is extremely extensive, including all kinds of computer parts, such as power supply, monitors, hardware components, injection molded parts, various boards and so on. The International Purchasing Department of IBM Asia Pacific also set up the China Purchasing Center (CPC) in Shenzhen. It is IBM's consistent principle to learn from society, give back to society and benefit mankind. Since 1980s, IBM has been actively committed to public welfare undertakings in China, especially the development of education in China. At the beginning of 1995, IBM donated a mainframe system worth $2,654.38 million to the State Education Commission of China to support the construction of the backbone network of China Education and Research Network. In March of the same year, IBM signed a memorandum of understanding with the State Education Commission. As one of the contents, IBM donated computer equipment and corresponding technical support equivalent to $32.2 million to 23 universities across the country, and built an IBM computer technology center to strengthen the construction of efficient information science and technology disciplines. By May 1996, all technical centers including Xiamen University had been established.
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