In the morning of Jun.4, YANG Weize, the member of provincial standing committee and municipal secretary and ZHOU Qian--secretary of WND Party working committee met Tim Solso, the CEO of American Cummins Group. Secretary Yang introduced the latest economic development of Wuxi, and specially told that under such serious economic situation, Wuxi City, through active structure transfer and development, greatly developed manufacturing industry, implemented new development strategy for intellectual and innovative economy, so as to keep growth.

He also highly appreciated 3 investment companies of Cummins in WND for their great contributions for the local economy and society. Tim Solso introduced the operation of Cummins Wuxi. Considering the rapid development in recent years and in order to introduce more products reflecting Cummins first-class technology to be manufactured in Wuxi, the headquarter will speed up the investment in Wuxi and further improve productivity. They will specially consider to build a industrial park to gather more global resources to Wuxi. Tim Solso appreciated a lot for supports by Wuxi city and WND for so many years, and lastly, he invited Secretary Yang and Zhou to visit their headquarter in US if time permits.

Cummins Group is the global leading manufacturer for power equipment. It specializes in design, production and sales of motors and related technology including fuel system, control system, air inlet system, filter system, exhaust treatment system and power system. It is listed as Top Fortune 500 in US, and also awarded as one of the “The most respectful enterprise in U.S.” in 2006. Cummins has 34600 employees around the world, with 550 branches and 5000 sales offices in more than 160 countries and regions. There are 3 Cummins subordinates in WND, which are: Wuxi Cummins Turbo Technology Co., Ltd.(joint venture) for producing turbo, WYEC (joint venture) for producing vanes, and Cummins Generator Technology ( China) Co., Ltd., (foreign-invested) for producing AC generator.