Siemens' earliest business activities in China can be traced back to 1872, when Siemens exported the first pointer telegraph to China. Siemens has been active in the Chinese market for more than 130 years and is a leader in the industrial, energy and healthcare businesses. Over the years, Siemens has become an integral part of China's economy and a reliable, loyal and reliable partner of China. Siemens has fully invested its environmental business portfolio and innovative solutions in cooperation with China, demonstrating its firm determination to help China achieve sustainable development. The company has witnessed the great changes brought about by China's reform and opening-up, but also complies with the trend of the times, and constantly actively carries out its own reform and development. So far, Siemens has established about 90 companies and 61 offices in China. Siemens' business organization, regional general manager and provincial general manager throughout China enable the company to better grasp the market pulse, understand local information, and meet customers' needs more quickly and efficiently. In the 2009 fiscal year (October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2009), Siemens' sales revenue in China reached 5.2 billion euros, and the total new orders reached 5.5 billion euros, up 7% and 1% respectively compared with the 2008 fiscal year. With 43000 employees in China, Siemens is one of the largest foreign-invested enterprises in China.