Talent: Local Growth
ABB values the cultivation of local talents and actively creates favorable development opportunities for its employees. In 2003, ABB was named one of the top 10 “Excellent Employers” in China in a survey conducted jointly by media outlets such as Fortune and Yahoo. In early 2006, ABB was named one of the most popular employers by college students in a survey organized by 51job website. In 2009, ABB was selected as one of the “Top 10 Best Employers in the Energy/Electrical/Chemical Industry” in the 7th China University Student Best Employer Survey initiated by China Talent Network, becoming the most popular job seeking enterprise among Chinese university students. In 2013, ABB was selected as one of the most ethical companies in the world. In 2012, researchers from ABB Group’s China Research Institute were also awarded the “Capital Labor Medal” by the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions.

R&D: Local development
ABB adheres to the development strategy of “in China, for China and the world”, promotes the localization of technology research and development, and continuously improves local research and innovation capabilities through continuous investment and optimization of research and development layout. In 2005, ABB established one of the seven global research and development centers in China. ABB China’s R&D team has made a series of R&D achievements, developing the smallest robot IRB 120 “Chinese Loong”, the world’s fastest stacking robot IRB 460, door opening robots and welding robots used in the automobile manufacturing industry, the award-winning “Mingyue” intelligent building intercom system, and future oriented products such as compact gas insulated switchgear ZX1.5-R SP, TEC ST smart transformer, 550 kV gas insulated switchgear, and ring network cabinets that can be applied to 90% of China’s high-altitude areas. In 2012, the first ± 800kV high-voltage direct current transformer manufactured by ABB Chongqing passed testing and began offline production, which is currently the highest voltage level transformer product produced by ABB in China; At the same time, ABB has closely cooperated with State Grid to successfully develop ± 1100 kV converter transformers, continuously achieving milestone breakthroughs in the field of ultra-high voltage direct current research and development.
With globally leading product technology and solutions, ABB actively helps domestic customers increase efficiency and energy conservation, and promotes the development of renewable resources, contributing its own strength to achieving China’s green and eco-friendly sustainable development. Over the past 10 years, ABB has provided domestic customers with frequency converters that have saved 157 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 56 million households; ABB’s high-efficiency motor products only helped domestic customers save 240 million kilowatt hours of electricity in 2012, equivalent to reducing 200000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. At the same time, ABB provides leading converters, generators, substations, and battery energy storage facilities for major domestic projects such as onshore wind farms and offshore intertidal wind farms, helping China build a globally leading green power grid.