Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer and rotating chairwoman of Huawei Technologies Co, said the company will not tie its fate to a single individual when asked about who will be the successor of his father Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei.

华为技术公司首席财务官兼轮值主席孟晚舟表示，当被问及谁将成为其父亲、华为创始人任正非的继任者时，该公司不会将自己的命运与一个人联系在一起。

"Xu is highly regarded both inside and outside the company, and has been instrumental in both driving JD's consistently stellar business performance and formulating strategic decisions," said Liu in a statement welcoming his successor.

刘在欢迎其继任者的声明中表示：“徐在公司内外都受到高度评价，在推动京东持续卓越的业务表现和制定战略决策方面发挥了重要作用。”。

According to Motorola, the device is the successor to the Motorola Edge S, which launched in January this year and was tailor-made for Chinese consumers.

Finally, there is the possibility that the CEO's preferred successor simply isn't willing to accept the role.

This forces the CEO to either look for another candidate, or dedicate their energies toward convincing their unwilling first-choice successor.

Overall, a CEO's "past focus" appears to be a powerful motivator for them to transfer knowledge to their successor, ensuring that they learn from the incumbent's most significant successes and mistakes.

A CEO's "future focus", however, encourages goal-setting and long-term plans for combining their knowledge and business aspirations with that of their chosen successor.

This can manifest in many different ways, from potential successors being more willing to learn from CEOs' experience, to enlarging the pool of viable successor candidates, reducing familial infighting over the succession, and generally creating a more harmonious environment for knowledge transfer and the strategic consideration of who is the most suitable candidate for the job.

Both Ma and Tsai have been steadily less involved in Alibaba's regular operations since Daniel Zhang was announced as Ma's successor as company chairman.

Son, an early Alibaba investor, characterised their parting as a vote of confidence in Ma's successor as Alibaba chief executive, Daniel Zhang.

Liu remains JD's actual controller," said Shen Meng, director of boutique investment bank Chanson& Co. Shen said Liu is in need of new successors to push forward JD's businesses, in consideration of his personal situation, just as at Microsoft, where Bill Gates appointed Steve Ballmer as his successor.

His successor will be announced later, said the statement.

Now, that dream has become an even bigger blueprint as his son and successor Lu Weiding has drawn up plans to invest more than 200 billion yuan ($29 billion) on a 10 square-kilometer innovative energy fusion hub.

Dubbed the New Surface Pro, the successor to the Surface Pro 4 will be powered by Intel's 7th-generation Kaby Lake processors and features an improved battery life of 13.5 hours, said Panos Panay, corporate vice president for Surface Computing at Microsoft.

The young successor has given a new life to the orchard business.

Trump's successor, Joe Biden, signaled in early May that his administration could lift the tariffs as a way to curb surging inflation in the US, though he stressed no final decision was made.

The high-tech successor to the humble icebox can help you buy food directly from the farm, track its delivery and get recipe recommendations based on your dietary preferences.

As Oppo's second custom-developed chip after the MariSilicon X dedicated imaging chip, the Mari-Silicon Y is not a successor, but rather a Bluetooth audio chip.

At a shareholder meeting in June, Toyoda said he was "thinking about timing and the selection of a successor" when asked about his future.

Geely has a market capitalisation of about $21.2 billion, eclipsing international peers better known outside of China such as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and Nissan Motor Co Ltd. Its parent, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co, plans to merge the automaker with affiliate Volvo Cars and list the successor in Hong Kong and possibly Stockholm.

He is the successor of Gaby-Luise Wuest, who has been in charge of Audi's activities in China since August 2019.

Mercedes-Benz's sales chief in China is moving to take the helm of the brand's operations in the United States, leaving his successor a solid foundation to move forward but also achievements that may require strenuous efforts to match.

As the successor to the MKX, it has two engine options: a 2.7-liter twin turbo and a 2.0-liter single turbo.

Ghosn remains CEO of Nissan's alliance partner Renault, though he was dismissed as chairman of Nissan and fellow alliance company Mitsubishi Motor Co. Renault has stuck by Ghosn since his arrest but faces pressure to find a successor as his detention drags on and questions mount about executive payment schemes used by the carmaker and related companies.

Mueller, 64, said earlier this year that VW is likely to pick his successor from within its own ranks.

According to Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, the metaverse is the successor to the mobile internet, a completely brand-new and immersive way to express ourselves.

The recruitment process to identify a successor will be shortly underway; meanwhile the bank's communications will be seamlessly driven by an acting director general, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday.

If Zhou's successor is able to continue the legacy and find a good balance between managing risks, development and stability, more achievements can be expected ahead along China's long path of reform, which, from Zhou's perspective, "is never a straight line".

Liu Zhenmin, former vice-minister of foreign affairs, has been appointed as Xie's successor.

Chen, the likely successor of Tian, has worked at BOC for 27 years and was regarded as an energetic and capable banker with extensive knowledge of risk management and corporate business.