German firms make beeline for China market

NANJING/BERLIN — Philipp Kortum, chief financial officer of TUV Rheinland, a renowned German testing and certification services provider, was astounded by the swift completion of its Phase II laboratory in Taicang, a county-level city in East China's Jiangsu province.

Completed six months ahead of schedule, the Yangtze River Delta Operation Hub in Taicang, now TUV Rheinland's largest lab, encompasses a wide array of businesses, from photovoltaics and new energy vehicles to textiles.

Neighboring Shanghai, Taicang, spanning approximately 800 square kilometers, is known as the "hometown of German enterprises" in China, with over 530 German enterprises flocking here.