Xiaomi vice president Chang Cheng left his job, and had previously been involved in a non-compete dispute with Lenovo

Three words of financial news, Xiaomi released internal documents today that chang Cheng, former vice president of the group and general manager of Xiaomi's mobile phone product department, left his job for personal reasons. The document called his departure a personal reason and said he thanked Chang cheng for his contributions to the company in the past two years.

After Chang Cheng left, Zeng Xuezhong, president of the mobile phone department, concurrently served as the general manager of Xiaomi's mobile phone product department.

It is worth noting that just today Changcheng also released a number of Microblogs about Xiaomi mobile phones.

In addition, internal documents also show that Shang Jin, vice president of Xiaomi's former group and general manager of the new retail department in China, left his post due to personal reasons, and appointed Wang Xiaoyan, vice president of China, as the general manager of the new retail department, and reported to Lu Weibing, president of China.

It is understood that before joining Xiaomi, Chang Cheng served as vice president of Lenovo Group and head of mobile phone business. After joining Xiaomi, Changcheng once fell into a non-compete with its former owner, Lenovo Group.

Chang Cheng joined Lenovo in 2000 and has led the research and development of Lenovo desktop computers, laptops and smart phones, and has a large wave of hardcore fans, and is affectionately known as "Chang Shou".

On December 31, 2019, Chang Cheng, then head of Lenovo's mobile phone business, announced his departure. In this regard, Lenovo responded that Changcheng has long struggled in the fiercely competitive mobile phone frontline, undergone tremendous business pressure, family gathering less and leaving more, based on personal health and hope for more energy to take care of the family, Changcheng recently proposed to leave.

However, within a few days, on January 2, 2020, Changcheng announced that he had joined Xiaomi as vice president of Xiaomi Group.

A few months later, in June 2020, Lenovo Group initiated arbitration on Changcheng's illegal non-compete restriction. Since then, Changcheng has always denied that the signature on the agreement was signed by himself, and claimed that Lenovo provided a number of Changcheng labor contracts and related legal documents for handwriting identification that were not signed by himself.

On September 17, 2020, Lenovo Group confirmed that it had submitted a labor arbitration to a dispute concerning the violation of non-compete obligations by Chang Cheng, the former head of Lenovo Mobile China, and that the Lenovo Restrictive Agreement signed by Chang Cheng on July 24, 2017 was signed by chang cheng on July 24, 2017.

On October 9, 2020, the Beijing Haidian District Labor and Personnel Dispute Arbitration Commission announced the result of the ruling that Changcheng violated the non-compete agreement and was required to pay Lenovo a liquidated damages of RMB5,252,821 and 9 points for breach of non-compete obligations, and continue to perform its non-compete obligations. For this result, Lenovo said that it was deeply encouraged, and Changcheng was not satisfied with the ruling, and the entrusted law firm has filed a lawsuit.