With the theme “2025 European Enterprises China Tour – A Closer Look at TEDA and Its Industries”, an industry exchange event was successfully held in TEDA Yuxiang Area on April 7. The event was jointly organized by TEDA Administrative Commission and Carl Duisberg Centren. As China is accelerating high-standard opening-up, this event brought together more than 70 delegates from Chinese and European enterprises. The two parties made in-depth exchanges on promoting industrial transfer, technological cooperation, market connectivity, and services for “going global” between Chinese and European enterprises.

During the event, TEDA officials presented the industrial strengths and business environment in the area, while delegates from Chinese and European enterprises gave project roadshows and keynote speeches. The TEDA Deutschland Service Station & Sino-German Empowerment Innovation Center (Tianjin TEDA) was launched, which is the cooperation between North China (TEDA) One-Stop Service Base for Enterprises Going Global and Germany's Carl Duisberg Centren. The center is expected to build a long-term cooperation platform for mutual recognition of technical standards and collaborative innovation in digital solutions for Chinese and European enterprises. The two parties will work together to advance industrial technology in high-end equipment, biomedicine, new energy and materials, etc. It will help translate specialized, innovative achievements of Germany's Hidden Champion Enterprises into industrial applications in China and assist TEDA-based companies in expanding their European R&D partnerships. The event also saw the release of an Initiative for the Integrated Development of High-end Equipment and Intelligent Manufacturing Industries.

European delegates expressed that TEDA's achievements in intelligent manufacturing closely align with Germany's industrial development strategies. They see great potential for future cooperation in cutting-edge fields such as new energy, intelligent manufacturing, digital economy, and biotechnology.

TEDA and Germany have long been engaged in cooperation. As early as 1997, TEDA established its European office in Cologne, Germany, the first of its kind in North China aimed at promoting Sino-German industrial collaboration. To date, 481 German-invested enterprises have set up operations in Tianjin, with major companies such as Volkswagen, SEW-EURODRIVE, Vitesco Technologies, and BASF Polyurethanes establishing a strong presence and achieving steady growth in TEDA.