CAIRO, June 29 (Xinhua) — Tarek Baligh, a 27-year-old graduate in Chinese language language, is now the operations supervisor at China’s home appliance giant Haier’s air conditioner manufacturing unit in Egypt. He credit the corporate’s immersive studying atmosphere for his profitable transition right into a technical function in air con manufacturing.
“After becoming a member of the corporate 5 years in the past, my revenue {and professional} expertise improved, and I gained expertise in venture implementation,” Baligh advised Xinhua in fluent Chinese language.
The manufacturing unit sits inside the 200,000-square-meter Haier Egypt Ecological Park, formally opened in Could 2024 in the tenth of Ramadan Metropolis, positioned in Egypt’s northeastern Sharqia Province. The advanced serves as a testomony to the corporate’s profound affect on local expertise growth and the enlargement of Egypt’s industrial sector.
Baligh revealed that Chinese language specialists and lecturers helped him perceive the expertise, and he realized little by little in every division.
“These accrued experiences introduced me vital features,” Baligh stated, recalling his mentor, Wu Changming, who patiently defined the intricacies of air con parts like evaporators and condensers, even drawing diagrams to help his understanding.
Baligh then paid it ahead, sharing his newfound data together with his Egyptian colleagues.
Haier’s dedication to equity and meritocracy is one other facet, Baligh stated, noting that the corporate offers staff with a good working platform. “Whoever performs nicely can get promoted,” he stated.
The person overseeing a lot of this formidable enlargement of Haier is engineer Ahmed Abdel-Rashid, the air conditioner manufacturing unit supervisor at Haier Egypt Ecological Park, which is being developed in two phases.
He stated the primary part, accomplished with outstanding velocity, boasts 4 operational factories: a supporting industries manufacturing unit, an air conditioner manufacturing unit, a tv manufacturing unit, and a washer manufacturing unit.
Abdel-Rashid, drawing on 20 years of expertise in numerous firms, lauded the distinctive method of Chinese language corporations.
“They pay nice consideration to human sources, constructing their capabilities, and coaching them beneath the steerage of teams of Chinese language specialists who targeted on Chinese language work patterns and types, transferring experience and expertise to Egyptian cadres and staff and qualifying them,” he defined.
Abdel-Rashid stated the advanced at present employs 1,200 workers members, with plans to considerably increase the workforce to 1000’s of staff, together with administrative workers, engineers, and technicians, as soon as the advanced is absolutely operational.
Haier’s strategic imaginative and prescient extends past Egypt’s borders, he stated, declaring that the corporate goals to serve the African continent and Center Jap markets.
Yang Linping, CEO of Haier Egypt Electrical Home equipment Co. Restricted, stated the Egyptian authorities’s ambition to determine Egypt as a regional hub for home appliance manufacturing aligns with Haier’s technique.
“From March 2024 to June 2025, Haier air conditioners have already reached the highest three in the market share in Egypt, with televisions and washing machines additionally displaying speedy growth,” he revealed.
Yang pressured that this sturdy efficiency underpins projections for additional local manufacturing, with fridges and kitchen home equipment anticipated to be manufactured domestically in the third quarter of subsequent yr, expressing full confidence in Haier’s skill to ship options for Egyptian customers.
Apart from, “The Chinese language workforce has actively guided and skilled their Egyptian counterparts on the newest applied sciences, a transfer set to bolster Egypt’s home appliance business considerably,” Yang advised Xinhua. ■
