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72 Financing and Real Estate
Our fi nancial experts have teamed up with Tongji University and Asklepios Kliniken in a joint venture to
build a fully digital general hospital in Shanghai. We hold a 40 percent stake in the Sino-German Friend-
ship Hospital project, the fi rst public-private partnership of its kind in China. Slated for completion in
2010, this innovative facility, in which the partners are investing more than €100 million, will provide
world-class healthcare services.
We have a three-pronged business strategy: to boost Siemens’ sales by providing fi nancial solutions, to ex-
pand our role as a competence center for fi nancial risk management at Siemens and to achieve profi table
growth in our business with non-Siemens clients. Our broad service portfolio – which is focused on the
needs of industrial companies – is specifi cally tailored to this strategy. Offerings include everything from
sales and investment fi nancing to treasury services, fund management, insurance brokerage and venture
capital fi nancing.
Like our customers, we aim to create value and enhance competitiveness. To achieve these goals, we rigor-
ously leverage all our strengths: global presence, in-depth market knowledge, fi nancial expertise coupled
with industry know-how, effective long-term risk management, effi cient processes and professional proj-
ect management.
We’re convinced that our solutions for fi nancing equipment, infrastructure and working capital in the
Industry, Energy and Healthcare sectors will continue to play a key role in successfully implementing
Siemens’ business strategy and optimizing the Company’s earnings in the years to come. As our participa-
tion in the Tongji Hospital partnership illustrates, fi nancing will always be a critical factor in the imple-
mentation of infrastructure projects.
Siemens Financial Services (SFS)
SFS is a global provider of business-to-business fi nancial solutions
for customers at Siemens and other companies.
Our custom-made
fi nancing solution for
the deployment of an
I&S traffi c control
system at the new
international Trade Fair
Center in Stutt gart,
Germany is just one of
our many recent
successes.
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