In Lishui Development Zone, there is a modern industrial park covering an area of about 500 acres, which is the location of Skyworth Electric Industrial Park. For more than ten years, Skyworth Electric has been working the hot land of Lishui, and has grown from a seed to a towering tree in the field of intelligent manufacturing. In 2023, the company’s sales revenue will exceed 5 billion yuan, becoming a leader in the smart home appliance industry. Behind all this, there is a group of Skyworth people who work silently and unremittingly to pursue, they come from all over the world, grow together with Skyworth Electric, and write their own stories of struggle.
In 2010, Skyworth Electric was established in Lishui and began to enter the white electricity industry. Since then, a group of young people with dreams and passion have also come to Lishui one after another, including experienced technical experts and young talents full of innovative thinking, injecting new vitality and impetus into the development of Skyworth white appliances.
Xiao Hua from Hunan is one of them, and he is mainly responsible for the industrial design of products. Xiao Hua still remembers the scene when he first came to Lishui in 2013: at that time, the area around Skyworth’s factory was still wasteland, and after more than 10 years of development, now the roads near the factory extend in all directions, and various industrial clusters in the development zone where they are located have risen. Xiao Hua is also “grinding a sword in ten years” in Lishui, and has grown from an ordinary industrial designer of Skyworth Electric to the manager of the industrial design center.
has a similar experience to Xiao Hua, as well as Chen Hua, director of the development of washing electromechanical control of Skyworth Appliances. Originally from Henan, she gave up her job in Zhejiang and chose to come to Skyworth Electric Lishui Park. After 7 years of struggle, she is handy at work and has witnessed the rapid changes in Lishui. “I came to Lishui in 2017, the subway was opened in 2018, and Wanda and Haile City opened in the same year, and these changes are happening every day.”
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In 2011, the first Skyworth refrigerator rolled off the production line; In 2013, the first Skyworth wave wheel washing machine rolled off the assembly line; In 2014, the first Skyworth drum washing machine rolled off the assembly line…… Over the years, Skyworth Electric’s refrigerators, washing machines and other new white goods products have emerged one after another, and major breakthroughs have been made one after another, all of which are inseparable from the company’s R&D team of more than 220 people.
Li Shuqiang from Shaanxi is the manager of the refrigerator development department of Skyworth Electric Appliances and has been working in the company for more than 10 years. He said with deep feeling that Lishui attaches great importance to the introduction of talents, not only for high-level talents to build talent apartments, to provide housing purchases, rental subsidies and other talent housing policies, but also pay great attention to the training of scientific research personnel and technical personnel and professional title evaluation, which have benefited foreign technical talents a lot.
Rooted in Lishui for more than 10 years, Skyworth Electric has continued to grow, and its sales revenue has increased year after year, from 1.7 billion yuan in 2013 to 5 billion yuan in 2023, showing a strong momentum of development. “These are largely due to the transportation location advantages of Lishui, whether it is an e-commerce platform or the delivery of goods in various cities, which have provided us with strong logistics support.” Li Lin, deputy general manager of Skyworth Electric Domestic Marketing Center from Anhui, introduced.
From enterprise managers to ordinary employees, everyone has chosen to settle down in Lishui, and their children go to school in Lishui, and the two-generation “new Lishui people” group is expanding.
“The education here is very good and well-equipped, both in terms of software and hardware. Li Lin said that his two children are now studying in the Lishui branch of Jinling Middle School and the Lishui branch of Youfu West Street Primary School, respectively, and he is very satisfied with the good teachers.
After working in Lishui for two years, Xiao Hua also bought a house in Lishui Development Zone and brought his family to Lishui to live together, “Now we live very comfortably, here, we are not purely for work, but also to enjoy life to the fullest!” ”
Chen Hua also bought a house soon after arriving in Lishui, “My family goes to the vegetable market, it takes 5 minutes to ride a bicycle, 5 minutes to school for children, and 5 minutes to Yadong Tongchenghui!” ””Lishui is not only a place full of opportunities, but also a city that makes people feel warm and belonging. Tian Shimin, deputy general manager of Skyworth Electric Appliances from Sichuan, said that Lishui’s friendly business environment can “empathize” with enterprises, and a series of preferential policies, perfect living facilities and education, health and other resources have facilitated the lives of foreigners, and there is a sense of home everywhere.
With the rapid development of Skyworth Electric Appliances in Lishui, more and more “New Lishui People” choose to work in Skyworth Appliances, and many foreign employees have become “New Lishui People” because of their work in Skyworth. At present, Skyworth Electric has more than 3,000 employees, 70% of whom are from other places, and has become the backbone of promoting the development of Skyworth Electric Appliances. In this vibrant land, they use diligence and wisdom to create the brilliance of Skyworth’s development and their own happy life.