Mercedes-Benz appointed Duan Jianjun, a Chinese national, president and CEO of its local sales company, Beijing Mercedes-Benz Sales.
The appointment will become effective on May 1, Beijing Mercedes said.
Duan joined the sales company in 2013 as an executive vice president. He was promoted to COO in 2019.
Duan succeeds Jan Madeja will return to Germany after serving as president and CEO for nearly four years to take over a post at Mercedes’s headquarters
China is Mercedes’s largest market worldwide.
In 2022, the German luxury brand delivered 751,700 vehicles in China, down 1 percent from a year earlier.