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Two Xiaomi Executives Leave

Jan 28, 2022, 23:23pm2022/01/29 10:05:53 Pandaily

On Friday, Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> announced in an internal email that Chang Cheng, Vice President of the company and General Manager of Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder />‘s Smartphone Products Department, and Shang Jin, Vice President of the company and General Manager of the New Retail Department in Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder />‘s China Region, all left the company for personal reasons.

In the email, Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> expressed its gratitude to their contributions. Next, Adam Zeng, Vice President of Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> and President of its Smartphone Department, will serve in Chang’s job. Wang Xiaoyan, Vice President of Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder />‘s China Region, will work in Shang’s position.

Before joining in Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> in 2013, Shang Jin served as technical assistant for Xiaomifounder’s Lei Jun’s software maker Jinshan Group in 2002. Shang left Jinshan to start a business in 2005.

Chang Cheng was an executive introduced to Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> in recent years. At the beginning of 2020, Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> announced that Chang Cheng, former vice president of Lenovo Group and head of mobile business in China, had joined Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> as vice president and is currently responsible for smartphone product planning.

However, after joining Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder />, Chang Cheng had a dispute over the prohibition of business strife agreements with Lenovo. He finally paid damages of 5,252,821 yuan ($826,006) and a compensation previously paid by Lenovo.

Regarding the personnel adjustment, Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> responded to 21Tech, saying that the company already has a sufficient talent reserve and that the personnel change will not affect the normal development of business.

In the company’s Friday internal email, Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> also announced that 18 new employees will be added to the entrepreneur program, driving its total number to 84.

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In August 2020, Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> officially launched an entrepreneur program to encourage its employees. Lei Jun said that the program will give 100 young potential talents who agree with Xiaomi<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder />‘s values and have outstanding achievements in core positions rewards similar to those early entrepreneurs will get.