 | Qingdao Haier: Haier Group's CEO Zhang Ruimin answers questions during an interview with Reuters at its headquarters in China's eastern port city of Qingdao, August 13, 2003. Zhang, who has an obsession with the United States, is hoping the Chinese home appliance giant's niche products grab the attention of the patriotically brand-loyal Americans. Zhang is banking on the youth to establish a U.S. beach-head for the $9 billion conglomerate, which makes more than 80 products including refrigerators, televisions, washing machines, computers and mobilephones. click to open  |
 | Qingdao Haier: A worker assembles parts of TV sets Saturday Aug. 16, 2003 at China's leading appliance maker Haier 's production line in Qingdao, China. The latest statistics show that Haier is first among refrigerator manufactures and fifth among the global white goods manufacturers with the largest world market share in the terms of brands. click to open |
 | Qingdao Haier: A worker assembles TV sets Saturday Aug. 16, 2003 at China's leading appliance maker Haier 's production line in Qingdao, China. The latest statistics show that Haier is first among refrigerator manufactures and fifth among the global white goods manufacturers with the largest world market share in the terms of brands. click to open |
 | Qingdao Haier: A worker assembles TV sets Saturday Aug. 16, 2003 at China's leading appliance maker Haier 's production line in Qingdao, China. The latest statistics show that Haier is first among refrigerator manufactures and fifth among the global white goods manufacturers with the largest world market share in the terms of brands. click to open |
 | Qingdao Haier: Chinese workers assemble Haier television sets at its headquarters in China's eastern port city of Qingdao, August 16, 2003. Movie subject, business guru, Communist faithful: Haier Group's CEO Zhang Ruimin is one of China's most celebrated entrepreneurs and also one of its most elusive. The seldom-interviewed head of the world's fifth-largest maker of white goods, ranked 19th on Fortune's list of the most influential executives outside the United States, is now bent on tackling greater things - the hard-to-crack U.S. market. He piloted Haier from the verge of bankruptcy to become a world-renowned brand. click to open |
 | Qingdao Haier: Chinese workers assemble refrigerators at a Haier factory in China's eastern port city of Qingdao, Shandong province August 13, 2003. Haier Group makes more than 80 products that include refrigerators, televisions, washing machines, computers and mobilephones. click to open |
 | Qingdao Haier: a guide demonstrated the utra-thin television set in a foreign trade show held in Qingdao on July 13th 1999. click to open |
 | Qingdao Haier: Haier Group's CEO Zhang Ruimin poses next to one of his company's best-selling refrigerators in the United States, at Haier headquarters in China's eastern port city of Qingdao, August 16, 2003. The seldom-interviewed head of the world's fifth-largest maker of white goods, ranked 19th on Fortune's list of the most influential executives outside the United States, is now bent on cracking the U.S. U.S. market. He piloted Haier from the verge of bankruptcy to become a world-renowned brand. click to open |
 | China Haier Group displayed its first ad in downtown Tokyo August 20th 2003 click to open |
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