ABB is a global leader in power and automation technology, committed to providing solutions for power, industry, transportation and infrastructure customers, helping customers improve production efficiency and energy efficiency, while reducing adverse impact on the environment. ABB Group's business covers nearly 100 countries around the world, has 135,000 employees, and its sales revenue in 2015 is about 36 billion US dollars.

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, the ABB Group is traded on the Zurich, Stockholm and New York stock exchanges. ABB was formed in 1988 through the merger of two international companies with a history of more than 100 years - Sweden's ASEA (ASEA) and Switzerland's Brown Boveri (BBC Brown Boveri).

The relationship between ABB and China can be traced back to 1907 at the beginning of the last century. At that time ABB provided a steam boiler to China. In 1974, ABB established the China Business Department in Hong Kong, and in 1979 established an office in Beijing. In 1992, ABB invested and established its first joint venture in Xiamen. In 1994, ABB moved its Chinese headquarters to Beijing, and in 1995, it officially registered as an investment holding company - ABB (China) Co., Ltd.

After years of rapid development, ABB has 40 companies in China, sales and service branches and offices in 147 cities, with R&D, production, engineering, sales and service all-round business, with about 18,000 employees . In 2015, ABB's sales revenue in China exceeded 33 billion yuan, of which more than 90% came from locally manufactured products, systems and services, maintaining ABB's position as the second largest market in the world.

Adhering to the development strategy of "in China, for China and the world", ABB actively promotes the localization of technology R&D, and continuously improves local R&D and innovation capabilities through continuous investment and optimized R&D layout. In 2005, ABB established one of the world's seven largest R&D centers in China.

With its world-leading product technologies and solutions, ABB has participated in the construction of many national key projects, including South-to-North Water Diversion, West-to-East Electricity Transmission, Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Beijing Olympic Games and Shanghai World Expo venues. ABB uses intelligent technology to continuously help customers save energy and improve production efficiency, contribute to the country's upgrading of power, industry, transportation and infrastructure, and realize a smart leap into high value-added industrial chains and the construction of a beautiful ecological environment.