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TOKYO: China’s reform and opening up have benefited
people around the world, said Panasonic Corp. President Fumio Otsubo
in an interview with Xinhua.
Otsubo made the remarks in
response to questions concerning China’s 30-year drive for reform
and opening up and Panasonic’s corporate growth in China.
“Thanks to China’s 30 years
of reform and opening up, Panasonic as well as other foreign
enterprises have been able to carry out their operations in China,
and their products be exported to China, “ said Otsubo, adding
that the products manufactured in China, on the other hand, have
also made their way to Japan and other countries.
“In such cooperation and
coordination, the relations between China and Japan as well as other
countries concerned have been enhanced,” he said.
“And people around the world
have benefited from the fruits produced by China in its unswerving
drive for reform and opening up,” he added. “Various nations in
the world have thus been more closely correlated both in terms of
economy and people-to-people exchanges.”
Panasonic owes its great success
in China to China’s reform and opening up, the Panasonic chief
said.
Panasonic (then Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.) became one of the first foreign-funded
enterprises to enter China more than 20 years ago following the
meeting of Konosuke Matsushita, founder of the company, and Chinese
leader Deng Xiaoping at the launch of reform and opening up in 1978.
Otsubo said that what impressed
him most over the past 20-plus years was the substantial progress in
the people-to-people exchanges, with batches of Japanese and Chinese
employees going to each other’s country in pursuit of
self-improvement.
During the process, the
understanding between Japanese and Chinese employees has been
greatly promoted, he said. And this could be viewed as one of the
most important achievements in Panasonic’s cooperation with China
over the past two decades.
China’s reform and opening up
is beneficial to everyone, said the Panasonic chief, expressing hope
that China would continue to pursue the policy of reform.
--Xinhua
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