Gu Yanmin (顾炎民) - The Wire China

Gu Yanmin, born in 1963, is the head of the robotics and automation division at Guangdong-based appliance company Midea Group, having worked at the company since 2000. Midea acquired German industrial robot maker KUKA in 2017, and Gu…

…now serves as chairman of the supervisory board of KUKA Group. He has a doctorate in sociology from Cornell University.

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