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MERKEL VISITS SHENZHEN
    2018-05-25  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Han Ximin


ximhan@126.com


GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel started an official two-day visit to China on Thursday and will visit Shenzhen on Friday, an icon of China’s development miracle during its reform and opening up over the past 40 years. It is her first trip to China after re-election and her 11th as the German chancellor.


President Xi Jinping met with Merkel in Beijing on Thursday, pledging to work with Germany to bring bilateral ties to a new high, Xinhua News Agency reported.


Some 20 heavyweight German entrepreneurs came along on Merkel’s visit. The annual sales of their companies reach 550 billion euros (about US$644 billion), fully showing the great importance attached by Germany to economic and trade cooperation with China, according to a Xinhua report Thursday, quoting Ministry of Commerce spokesman Gao Feng.


“Leading the economic delegation, Merkel will visit Shenzhen, the forefront of China’s reform and opening up. This indicates Germany’s support for and positive attitude toward participating in China’s new round of reform and opening up,” Gao said.


Before her visit, Merkel said in a podcast last Saturday that she was very interested in visiting Shenzhen, where China’s economic opening up began and where there are many German companies.


“I am glad that I’m going to Shenzhen this time as well. I have regularly visited provinces in China, not just the capital. I am again and again aware of the dynamics and the extent to which China is developing,” said Merkel in the podcast.


Four cities in Germany, namely Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Berlin and Hannover, have established friendly exchange relationships with Shenzhen in the past decades, developing wide exchanges especially in the science, education, and medicine sectors.


In March 2017, Shenzhen and Nuremberg marked the 20th anniversary of their sister city relationship by exchanging art troupes. Shenzhen organized Shenzhen Show for local German people and Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra opened the Shenzhen Sister City Culture Week. More than 200 artists in 11 art troupes from seven sister cities gave performances in Shenzhen over a month.


Bavaria state has arranged for its enterprises to attend the annual China Hi-Tech Fair in Shenzhen since its inception in 1999. By 2017, the state had arranged for over 100 firms to attend the fair on 18 occasions.


In the education sector, the newly established Shenzhen Technology University has signed cooperation deals with 25 applied universities in Germany and Switzerland on student and teacher exchanges and curricula introduction.


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This January, the university established a lab with Regensburg University of Applied Sciences for beer brewing and control. The Sino-German College of the university plans to establish 2-3 labs every year in intelligent manufacturing and robotics. Graduates from the university will obtain two diplomas.


“We have been adopting the mode of German universities since the university was founded, such as the evaluation system among teachers and cooperation with enterprises,” said Zeng Siyu, from the International Cooperation and Student Department of the university, in an interview yesterday.


Yuan Yiming, vice chairman with China Special Economic Zones Research Center of Shenzhen University, said, “We should learn more from Germany in developing the real economy, manufacturing, precision equipment and especially craftsmanship.”


Earlier this year, China and Germany set up 11 innovation cooperation platforms, covering fields like electric vehicles, bioscience, clean water, intelligent manufacturing and clean energy.


China is now Germany’s biggest trading partner, and Germany is China’s largest trading partner in the European Union.


According to a Business Confidence Survey conducted in 2017 by the German Chamber of Commerce, more than one third of the German companies operating in China expect the see positive impacts on their future business as a result of the Belt and Road Initiative, and 30 percent of German companies are active or considering involvement in BRI projects.


According to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, goods worth 186.6 billion euros (US$218.74 billion) were traded between Germany and China in 2017. China was Germany’s most important trading partner in 2017 for a second consecutive year.

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