"Motorola is very satisfied with our market achievements in the past several years in China. In fact, we attach great expectation on the prosperity of the wireless communication market of this country. Motorola is confident for the future development." The Board Director of Motorola, Mr. Garry Duke answered the pressmen in Beijing on 22nd June, 1998.

Motorola is a global world-class provider of wireless communication products, semiconductor devices, advanced electronic equipments and related services. The major products include mobile phone communication equipments, automobile electronic components, defense and aero electronic devices and computers. Motorola is a technology pioneer of mobile phones, beep-pager, bilateral wireless and CDMA. Its business stretches all over the world.

Motorola set up contact with TEDA in 1986 and in 1988 it invested 300,000 USD to build a small company in TEDA ---- Tianjin Motorola Electronic Testing Co.,Ltd. The Tianjin Company was designated to do market research and also sell the assembled products in the Chinese market. Four years of market evaluation and social investigation, optimized investment environment of TEDA, promised future, all these helped Motorola make the decision of investing TEDA as its manufacture base of China. The first-phase investment was 120 million USD, and Motorola (China) Electronic Co.,Ltd. was founded, which was the largest wholly-owned enterprise of foreign investment in China at that time. The establishment of the Company was greatly supported by the various administrative departments in TEDA, Tianjin and even the Central Government in Beijing. TEDA did a great job in carrying out the smooth process of project approval for Motorola ----- all the governmental certificates were issued within 14 days, a real magic at that time.

It was less than 3 months that the new manufacture base created 5 million RMB of products output since it started the operation in the factory building in October, 1992. After the installation of first-phase new factory building, the output raised quickly to 820 million USD, which was the top among all the enterprises in TEDA. Since then, the Chinese business of Motorola (China) Electronic Co.,Ltd. has flied up rampantly. Motorola re-invested 720 million USD in 1995 to manufacture semiconductor and talking-walkings in Tianjin. Year 1996 saw the Company's industrial output amounting up to 16 billion RMB, sales revenue 16 billion RMB, profit 2.86 billion RMB and export value 690 million USD. It ranked No.2 among the Top 500 foreign-invested companies in China in this very year, and its economic benefits ranked No.7 among all the 18,000 enterprises in China. Even in 1998 when the Asia Finance Crisis spread in the southeast Asia area and the market competition had become terribly fierce, Motorola (China) Electronic Co.,Ltd. still honored the No.2 among the Top 500 foreign-invested companies in China with a growing mark: 23.72 billion RMB of industrial output, 23.61 billion RMB of sales revenue, 2.52 billion RMB of profit and 876 million USD of export value.

Up to year 1998, the actual investment of Motorola in China had amounted up to 1 billion USD. Currently, Motorola is still the largest US-based investor and the largest electronic industry investor in China. Motorola has set up 1 wholly-owned enterprise in TEDA, 7 joint ventures under the umbrella of a holding company, and involved in 4 cooperative projects and tens of important investment cases.

The Board Director of Motorola, Mr. Garry Duke said that because of the solid foundation made by previous efforts, Motorola (China) Electronic Co.,Ltd. had been the center of Asia in the whole company, and been responsible for the regional business direction in mainland China, Hongkong, Taiwan and other Asian areas. Motorola would like to extend the cordial cooperation with China in the future. The Chinese market was charming to us. We would continue the investment and technologies transferring, further introduce the localization of employees and products, and extend the cooperation scale. Since the operation of Motorola in China, it had attached great importance to the cultivation of talents: a large batch of managers had been incubated in the Motorola University, which was not only good for Motorola, but also for the development of China's telecommunication business.

Since our entrance into the Chinese economy, we have been seeking unceasingly the extreme of technology innovation. However, at the same time, we never forget our responsibility as a citizen to relief the worries and difficulties for the people in need. Since the very beginning of its foundation, Motorola has taken the support to the Chinese education as its long-term development strategy, and constituted a long-term plan to subsidize the Hopefulness Project and Senior Education. Children benefited from the endowment of Motorola could be found across the country. Motorola was the first one to provide training to all the teachers in the Hopefulness Schools endowed by Motorola, also the only contributor to provide sustainable support. On the lands of the World-Fastigium, Tibetan Plateau, the revolutionary basement where the first flag of Chinese Red Army was born, the first Anti-Japanese Invasion stronghold, and the remote and backward places, Motorolans have built Hopefulness Schools for the local people. Motorolans said these places were so remote and small that could be hardly found out by a magnifier on the map, and we might have no chance to visit these places in our life time; however, we would remember them forever because they have brought forth a kind of special feeling and merits into our hearts. The Chairman of Board, Mr. Christopher Galvin once said, "China is the second home to Motorola, and we must be a good citizen in this country."

Based in TEDA, after a short period of over 10-year for development, Motorola has gained excellent achievement in China. Motorola appreciates greatly the wonderful investment environment of TEDA. At the close of this article, we would like to cite some words from the CEO of Motorola US Company, Mr. Gary Yanz, which was first announced on an investment forum in the States in 1997, "If we were allowed to choose our investment base in China once again, we would still choose Tianjin, choose TEDA."