22 October 2018, PRC: NRW Economy and Digitalisation Minister Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart began a 40-people strong trade mission with Peking as first station followed by Nanjing and Chendu. On the agenda were topics concerning smart city planning, future mobility and new energies.
Motive behind the visit was the 30th year anniversary of partnerships between NRW and the provinces Jiangsu and Sichuan, with regional capitals Nanjing and Chendu respectively.
As underlined by Minister Pinkwart, the PRC is the second largest trade partner for North Rhine-Westphalia after the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Vice versa NRW enjoys being the region with most foreign direct investment stemming from the PRC. NRW was exceptionally in the aforementioned cities to present new technologies concerning mobility to Chinese partners and investors.
In Peking the Minister paid a visit to Huawei, the Xiaoying Bus Terminal, by far the largest electrobus station worldwiede as well as the start-up Street Innoway.
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PRC – NRW, Picture by Land NRW, Ralph Sondermann.
