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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 two to three 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 Thursday.

Yuan Yiming, vice chairman of the 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 to see positive impacts on their future business as a result of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), 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$218.47 billion) were traded between Germany and China in 2017. China was Germany’s most important trading partner in 2017 for a second consecutive year.