Out of pure curiosity, after finishing high school, Doris Fischer enrolled in Sinology and Business Administration at the University of Hamburg. She didn’t know any Chinese people by name and wasn’t sure if she would even like the program. „After two weeks, I was captivated by it,“ she says. The 55-year-old has now been studying China’s economic and industrial policy for around 30 years, and since 2012 as a Professor of China Economics and Business at the Institute of Sinology at the University of Wuerzburg.