3M China has benefited a lot from China’s reform and opening up. After pondering for a while, Stephen decided to use “pioneering” to describe China’s development. He said, “The last 40 years have been something that the global economy has never really experienced before. The people here in China have experienced changes at a pace that I'm not sure any generation has experienced before, and all of that means there's been this willingness to try something new and different and that takes a lot of courage. That's what I associate with pioneers: trying something new, moving forward, and doing it in a way that is new and bold and different for the world. I think it’s taken a lot of courage from the people here in China to drive that forward, and 3M has been very fortunate to be a part of it.”

Story by Wang Keran

Translated by Wu Qiong

Cameraman: Liu Hao