[5] The company grew 47% in 2008, despite the global recession, booking $23 billion in contract sales.

[3] The company is a multinational enterprise with 70,000 employees and annual production of 65.5 million units.

[3] In April 2011, Gree announced that first-quarter net income rose 47 percent from a year earlier to 934.7 million Yuan.

[citation needed] Dong was also the Chairwoman of its largest shareholder at the time, Gree Group, until November 2016.

Gree Electric is a majority state-owned enterprise, primarily by the city of Zhuhai.