In the vast galaxy of the automotive industry, she lit up the bright stars belonging to China's automobile industry with wisdom and courage. She is not only the leader of Geely Automobile's power technology innovation, but also the promoter of technology brand building. In 2018, she was also awarded the "Outstanding Person in China's Automotive Industry to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up" for her outstanding performance. She is Wang Ruiping, senior vice president of Geely Automobile Group and CEO of Aurora Bay.
Today, we are honored to nominate Wang Ruiping as a candidate for the "2024 China's Top 10 Brand Women" as a tribute to her outstanding contributions to China's automotive industry.
A pioneer in technological innovation
From the campus of Jiaotong University to the dream of becoming an automobile power
Wang Ruiping's story began on the campus of Xi'an Jiaotong University. There, she completed her studies in internal combustion engines with honors, laying a solid foundation in the field of automotive powertrains. After graduating, she did not choose a comfortable life, but devoted herself to the challenging automotive industry.
At the Zhengzhou Light Vehicle Plant (later the Zhengzhou Nissan Joint Venture), she quickly demonstrated her deep understanding of technological innovation and outstanding talent. Her talent and hard work were quickly recognized, and she was assigned to the second automobile (i.e., Dongfeng Motor) to independently take charge of the new development of the cooling system. In the icy and snowy Changchun, she insisted on completing the wind tunnel test when almost all the staff went home for the Chinese New Year. Finally, the cooling system development test she was responsible for passed the first time and won the National Science and Technology Award.
Subsequently, Wang Ruiping went to Canada for further study and obtained a master's degree in engineering from Concordia University, Wang Ruiping resolutely returned to his motherland from Canada with the national complex of building a Chinese power brand, and started the development process of Chinese brand engines.
In 2011, Wang Ruiping joined Geely. China's first high-performance direct-injection supercharged engine 1.8TD, independently developed by her, unusually completed the ignition of the first prototype within 9 months, and achieved mass production in only two years, helping Borui and Boyue become the sales champion of Chinese brand B-class cars. The 1.8TD also won the title of 2015 "China Heart" Top Ten Engines after the 1.3T engine.
After overcoming the engine difficulties, Wang Ruiping's pace of building Chinese power did not stop, and he began to develop automatic transmissions in 2013. From 2018 to 2019, the first 7DCT transmission in China jointly developed by Geely and Volvo won the honorary title of "Top Ten Transmissions in the World" for two consecutive years by virtue of the excellent performance and fuel saving rate brought by electronic control technology.
In 2021, Geely officially launched the power brand "Leishen Power", which is positioned as a global high-end and based on the global market. Its modular intelligent hybrid platform, the world's first 3-speed hybrid transmission DHT Pro, supports full coverage of A0-C models, and covers a variety of hybrid technologies such as HEV, PHEV, REEV, etc., with a fuel saving rate of more than 40%.
In 2020 and 2023, Geely Power won the first prize of the "China Automobile Industry Science and Technology Progress Award", known as the "Nobel Prize in China's automotive industry", twice with its 1.5TD+7DCT high-performance powertrain and Raytheon's new generation dual-motor DHT hybrid system. This award is the highest standard and most influential science and technology award in the domestic automotive industry.
In her more than 10 years of Geely career, Wang Ruiping and her team have developed more than 20 power products and created a total of 14 "China Heart" top ten engines, transmissions and hybrid powertrains, helping Geely become the first brand car company in China to achieve passenger car production and sales exceeding 10 million units, which can be called the first day of powertrain research and development of Chinese brand car companies.
Promoter of international cooperation
Transnational projects go from following to leading
The past ten years have been a decade of rapid development of Geely Automobile in the context of internationalization, and the powertrain is the vanguard of Geely's international cooperation, which has successively carried out in-depth international cooperation with overseas high-end brands such as DSI, Proton, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz in Australia, and has achieved fruitful results, exporting products overseas and helping to build overseas factories. Through a series of successful cooperation projects, Geely Power has won high recognition from its partners. At the same time, under the guidance of Wang Ruiping's international cooperation idea of "culture first, mutual trust and integration, value orientation, and results-oriented", Geely Power Systems has reached a new height of internationalization in terms of talents, systems, technologies, and standards.
In 2012, Geely Power cooperated with Volvo to develop the 15TD engine, which was also the first in-depth cooperation project between Geely and Volvo. Under the difficulties of cross-regional, cross-time, cross-cultural and cross-language, Wang Ruiping pays attention to communication first and carries out interactive activities of cultural awareness. After understanding, the two sides established full trust, and the foreign party even took the initiative to hand over the technology-led management to the Chinese side in the later stage of the project, and finally jointly created a cost-effective 1.5TD engine with a global benchmark for NVH.
In 2013, Geely Power and Volvo launched a joint research and development of the world's most efficient transmission, the 7DCT. Jointly developed by five parties in four countries and involving more than 30 European suppliers, the project is a complex global cooperation project. As the leading party, Wang Ruiping organized everyone, coordinated as a whole, implemented the mechanism of Sino-foreign joint regular meetings, carried out daily, weekly and monthly regular meetings, and promoted frequent interaction between high-level personnel of both sides. With the concerted efforts of all parties, the incredible "four most" goals at the beginning of the project were finally achieved, namely the most advanced technology, the most reliable quality, the shortest cycle and the most competitive cost. Today, 4 million units of this product have been produced and exported to Europe for many years.
In the follow-up hybrid new platform architecture development project, through the integration of global resources, China has achieved the disruptive innovation of large-scale original technology for the first time in the core field of powertrain. The new hybrid system, which combines the dual advantages of European high performance and Japanese low fuel consumption, overcomes the pain point problem of only taking one end into account in the past, and achieves the best compatibility between power and economy, reaching the international leading level.
Leader in green development
Strategic layout under the vision of "dual carbon".
Today, as he promotes green development and achieves the "dual carbon" goal on a global scale, Wang Ruiping has shown advanced insight and leadership. At the CTI Power Forum in Berlin, Germany in 2019, in the call for All-in electric vehicles, she boldly put forward the prediction of the future development of hybrid and put forward the development trend of power diversification, which attracted wide attention in the professional field.
In terms of alternative fuels, Wang Ruiping led the team to successfully industrialize a number of methanol engines, incorporate hybrid technology into methanol vehicle applications, and launch the world's first alcohol-electric hybrid technology, providing feasible solutions for the achievement of the national "dual carbon" goal and energy security, and helping Geely become a leader in the field of methanol fuel vehicles.
A charismatic performer
Heterogeneous spurts emerge in male-dominated industries
Wang Ruiping is not only an outstanding automotive engineer, but also a woman full of wisdom and charm. She is good at listening to and understanding the ideas and needs of her team members, and is able to stimulate their motivation and creativity. Her leadership style is both rigorous and approachable, focusing on results and caring about the process, so that team members can be passionate, dare to challenge, and make unremitting efforts to achieve goals, and achieve rapid personal growth while achieving the company's performance.
Wang Ruiping always presents himself with an elegant and confident image. Her speech and demeanor reveal a kind of calmness and calmness, which makes people feel her inner strength and wisdom. Her sincerity, perseverance and character of walking the talk have won the respect and trust of team members, and have also established a good reputation and image in the industry, and even infected the senior leaders of international partners, and the two sides have worked together to carry out the "Nissin" action for 220 consecutive days to promote the progress of the project until the goal is achieved.
With tenacity, wisdom and vision, Wang Ruiping has carved out a niche in the male-dominated automotive industry, winning the respect of his peers and all walks of life, and becoming a role model for countless female professionals.
Wang Ruiping's story is a story of innovation, perseverance and dedication. I believe that the power of "brand women" role models will surely inspire more women to bravely pursue their dreams and create brilliance.
As a candidate for the "2024 China's Top 10 Brand Women", Wang Ruiping not only represents Geely Automobile's innovative power, but also shows the development of China's auto industry from following to leading. At present, Geely Power and Volvo Power have jointly established a new powertrain company, Aurobay (Aurora Bay). With the boom of Chinese cars going overseas, we expect her power career to bloom more brilliantly on the international stage and set a new benchmark for female leaders of Chinese brands."