In aging societies like China, there is growing hope for robots to assist with everyday tasks such as caring, cleaning or delivering packages. But one question remains: Can they also mix cocktails? In Hangzhou, China’s up-and-coming tech metropolis, a robot showed at a presentation this week: Yes, they can, easily. A similar robot had already […]
As the Goethe-Institut in Berlin announced on Tuesday, the Chinese German scholar and linguist Li Yuan will be awarded the Goethe Medal. Li, who heads the Faculty of Asian and European Languages, the Institute for German Studies and the Center for Global Competence at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, is being honored for her outstanding achievements […]
Amid a stagnating real estate market and growing social tensions, China has turned to a new instrument: housing coupons. These official documents are intended to help expropriated households, for example, due to demolition projects as part of urban development, to acquire a new home – and reduce surplus properties. The megacity of Shenzhen also introduced […]
Yue Zhou joined Zollner Limited China, an electronics manufacturing service provider headquartered in Zandt, Bavaria, as New Business Development Manager in April. Yue has extensive experience in electronics manufacturing, especially in the Asian region. He previously worked for Zollner China as Key Account Manager from 2010 to 2018. He will be based in Suzhou.Is something […]
After around half a year in space, the Chinese space mission Shenzhou-19 has been completed. The return capsule carrying the three taikonauts Cai Xuzhe, Wang Haoze and Song Lingdong touched down safely in the Gobi Desert at around 1 p.m. local time on Wednesday, as reported by Chinese state television. The landing had originally been […]
Alexander Schaarschmidt has been President of the RSD6 sales region South China at FAW-Volkswagen since February. He was previously head of the ID. Operation Center in Changchun. Schaarschmidt held several management positions at Volkswagen AG from 2010 – from Used Car Manager to various regional sales management roles and Regional Director After Sales. From 2020 […]
Being an expat English teacher in China was long considered a stress-free job – albeit with a questionable reputation: Many were accused of partying and being lazy. Moreover, a Western appearance was often enough to get a good job as a teacher in the past, even if English was not the native language. These times […]
The German Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office pressed charges against Jian G., the former aide of AfD politician Maximilian Krah, as well as an alleged accomplice. The two accused are “sufficiently suspected” of having worked as agents for a Chinese intelligence service. Jian G. worked as an aide to the then-MEP Krah in his parliamentary office […]
Four democracy activists were released from prison in Hong Kong on Tuesday. The four former MPs, Claudia Mo, Kwok Ka-ki, Jeremy Tam, and Gary Fan, had served sentences of more than four years in various prisons.They belonged to a group of 47 activists who had organized unofficial primaries for the Hong Kong parliament in 2020 […]
Karl Hudson has been Regional Director China at Hamburg-based logistics company Hoyer since March. He previously worked for the Suttons Group for almost eight years, most recently as Regional Director for North Asia. Among other things, he was responsible for business development in the region. He will continue to be based in Shanghai. Mei Mei […]