Xu Lan (L), deputy head of the investment promotion office in Taicang, a county-level city in Jiangsu Province, gives an interview to the media in Shenzhen on Thursday. A business delegation from Taicang visited Shenzhen last week to promote its investment opportunities and try to attract biotech companies from Shenzhen to settle in the eastern China city. Home to more than 470 German-funded companies, Taicang is known as the hometown of German firms in China, and also has a very good reputation in Germany’s business community.  Sun Yuchen