Alstom appoints Ming Geng as China cluster managing director

On September 1, 2022, Alstom appointed Ming Geng as China cluster managing director, effective as of the day of appointment.

Based in Beijing, China, Ming will be responsible for the execution of the Alstom in Motion strategy in China, as well as the cluster’s commercial and operational performance.

Ming Geng brings over 23 years of long and successful experience in the railway industry. He began his career in 1999, working with Guangzhou Metro Corporation as a fleet operation & maintenance engineer.

Since 2003, he has played different roles as rolling stock project manager and head of rolling stock for the project management department. After that, Ming joined TUEV Rheinland Greater China as a general manager of the business unit, guided transport systems and aviation technology. During his 14 years working for Siemens Mobility, Ming spent 10 of those heading up the business unit rolling stock. In parallel, he was chairman and CEO of Siemens Mobility Equipment (China) Limited from 2019 to 2022.

Joining Alstom in March 2022, Ming Geng took up the position as systems, APM & monorail director China, and general manager of JV PATS (CRRC Puzhen Alstom Transportation Systems Limited). He holds a BS in electrical engineering and automation, and a master of business administration.

Ming Geng, managing director of Alstom China, said: “I am honoured to work with the team in a newly appointed role, to co-write the new chapter of Alstom’s business in China. With the rapid development of the rail transit industry, China takes the lead in multiple aspects including high-speed trains, locomotives, metro, light rail, and urban medium and low volume transportation systems.

“China is a dynamic market with huge potential and is full of opportunities. Alstom, with over 60 years of experience in China, and as a participant and witness of the fast development of China’s rail transit industry, will further strengthen the strategic cooperation with local customers and partners across products and services.

“In the meantime, Alstom will power China’s dual carbon strategy and boost smarter and greener sustainable development of China’s rail transit industry by virtue of comprehensive product portfolio and its localisation, digital mobility solutions and progressing local R&D innovation capabilities.”

Present in China for over 60 years, Alstom participates in the full spectrum of China’s railway projects. Alstom in China now has a complete range of rolling stock (high-speed trains, railway passenger cars, locomotives, metro, automated people movers, monorail and trams), state-of-the-art components (traction systems, bogies, traction motors, dampers), customised services as well as infrastructure and signalling solutions.

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12th September 2022