During the visit of CSU-member of parliament Dr. Hans-Peter Friedrich to his office in the German Bundestag in Berlin on 28 June 2024, both gentlemen were able to exchange and deepen their personal assessments of the current situation of Sino-German economic relations. In his role as Chairman of the Sino-German Parliamentary Group, Dr Friedrich continuously…

The German-Chinese congress "Invest in China - Germany Session", which was excellently organised and also carried out by the CIIPA organisation, took place in Stuttgart on 5 April 2024. Around 200 Chinese companies from different regions of China and various emerging economic sectors such as energy, aerospace, robotics and AI and others presented their investment…

The event aimed to introduce China’s increasingly open and reliable investment environment, accelerate Xi’an’s economic opening, promote westward development and initiate concrete cooperation projects. For this reason, the CIIPA invited cities, industrial parks, economic institutions and enterprises to participate in the investment promotion event, which was well attended by around 100 guests and organized by…

Exclusive “Get Together” at the NIO House in Berlin on March 2nd, 2023 On 2 March 2023, an interesting and extraordinary business meeting took place at the newly opened "NIO Haus" in Berlin, Kürfürstendamm 11, in a prime city centre location. In a casual, informal atmosphere, there was ample opportunity to admire the latest e-vehicles…

DRC actively supports CIIPA in the planning and preparation of the 6th Sino-German Automotive Congress in Berlin from 19-21.09.2022. The three-day event is planned with top representatives from business and politics from both countries and is seen as a significant development platform for intensifying economic and political cooperation for the automotive industry.  Around 1000 international…

On 27 July, a cooperation agreement was signed between CIIPA and the Pro IT Car association. The director of CIIPA, Yaojun Xu, met with the chairman of the board, Prof. Dr. Hagen Ringshausen, in Berlin for this purpose. The association sees itself as a learning and development platform for the automotive supply industry in the…

On 07.04.2022, an extremely inspiring event on the topic of the future of autonomous driving took place at the Berlin Capital Club as part of the „Maren Courage Digital Talks“ series. At the business breakfast, which was hosted by the VR Business Club as the largest dialogue and matchmaking platform on the topic of virtual…

On 24 March 2022, an in-depth discussion took place between DRC colleagues, Anja Warnecke-Bi (Head of China Desk@DRC) and Dr. Hagen Ringshausen (CEO). The meeting, which was organized at the premises of RSBK Strategie Beratung Kommunikation AG in Frankfurt am Main, focused on the question of how support services for Chinese companies and organizations can…

A good twenty years ago, they were the highest ranking official and Federal Defence Minister on the one hand, and a troop officer and instructor in the army on the other: Rudolf Scharping and Hagen Ringshausen. On 15 February 2022, they met in the centre of Berlin to exchange personal experiences and opinions on German-Chinese…

On 29.10.2021, Ms Warnecke-Bi, who has been working very closely with DRC for years, joined me at the ACOD network meeting on the topic of „ACOD China Desk“ at the premises of aBB (BTC Berlin Technology Center, Adlershof). The focus of the ACOD internal meeting was to re-coordinate the diverse China activities and to reflect…

Under the motto „Innovation leads to a green future“, the 5th German-Chinese Automotive Congress took place on 19 October, organised by the China International Investment Promotion Agency (Germany), Automotive Berlin Brandenburg, Changchun Automotive Economic and Technological Development Zone, AutoZone (Germany) and the German-Chinese Working Group for the Promotion of the Automotive Industry, and supported by…