Zhang Ruimin, the world renowned enterpriser, founder of Haier Group, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Haier Group, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO. Zhang Ruimin is the alternative member of the 16th , 17th and 18th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China. In 1984, Zhang Ruimin took the post as Director of Qingdao Refrigerator Factory – predecessor of Haier, thus starting the prologue of Haier’s entrepreneurship. Through 28 years of development, with his innovative entrepreneurial spirit and advanced strategic decision-making in conformity with the trend of the times, hehas turned a small collectively-owned factory with a 1.47m Yuan loss into a global enterprise with global turnover of 163.1b Yuan (2012). According to statistics from Euromonitor, Haier has been honored as the world’s largest Major Appliances brand for four consecutive years. During the BCG’s Report, Haier is in the eighth position of the Most Innovative Companies 2012 and Haier is the only Chinese company which enters the top ten rankings.