Nanjing: Building an innovation-driven city
China Today, September 6, 2016 Adjust font size:
Environmentally-Friendly Enterprises
Nanjing’s innovation is coupled with the concept of green and sustainable development. Everywhere, people see streets lined with lush trees, picturesque plazas decorated with beautiful landscapes, classic and gracious theme parks, and environmentally-friendly and low-carbon garden-like enterprises.
Walking into the main building of Nanjing TICA Air-Conditioning Co., Ltd., visitors are instantly surrounded by greenery and cool fresh air. The company specializes in R&D, manufacturing, and sales and services of central air-conditioning and refrigeration. It has developed into one of the four leading brands of China’s central air-conditioning industry, with over 70 sales and services offices and more than 30 air-conditioner product lines globally. Serving nearly 40 pivotal metro lines, it has become the largest supplier of central air-conditioning in China’s subway market.
Marketing director Liang Lujun of TICA, one of the four leading central air-conditioning brands in China, introduces the company’s products.
In recent years, TICA has provided a large number of domestic and foreign customers with energy-saving central air-conditioning solutions. In 2015, the company had an output of 387,000 units. Marketing director Liang Lujun told the reporter, “Our products are widely used in various architectures, major projects and headquarters of big companies including the central government compound Zhongnanhai, the Great Hall of the People, the Bird’s Nest National Stadium, the Water Cube National Aquatics Center, the C919 Aircraft Project, CNPC, Sinopec, and the State Grid of China, as well as Manila Ocean Park and Unilever Global.”
TICA has established academic workstations employing renowned experts in heat transmission science like academicians Tao Wenquan and He Yaling of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. At the same time, it has founded a technical institute in Japan, and conducted strategic cooperation with UTC in the United States.
Nanjing, with its open-mindedness and inclusive attitude, innovative and pragmatic actions, welcomes the bright prospect of green and sustainable development.
