Scholz, he's here again.
On April 16, we met with the German Chancellor at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
After the meeting, the leaders of the two sides walked together and had in-depth exchanges on a wide range of topics, and the reception was of a very high standard.
Similarly, Scholz is also very face-saving, not only bringing three cabinet ministers of environment, agriculture and transportation, but also the bosses of a top German enterprise such as Siemens, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, BASF, and Krupp, and went to Chongqing and Shanghai for a turn before entering Beijing.
He also became the first Western leader to "brush up" Beijing after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
This move marks the return of Germany to its traditional diplomatic model with China.
After Merkel abruptly switched from being tough on China to being pro-China in 2006, she visited another Chinese city with close economic and trade ties with Germany every time she visited Beijing, and she did so once a year.
Some German proofs, the once frozen Sino-European relations, will also begin to accelerate the recovery.
Of course, Scholz will not return empty-handed,
Since the two sessions this year, "equipment renewal" has become a major event for governments at all levels and central enterprises, and they have filled in various reports.
Different from the domestic substitution in the past few years, mainly on the consumer side, this round of "equipment update" is mainly on the production side, and the most advanced equipment on the global production side is the "most rigorous" Germany.
Coincidentally, Scholz brought to China this time, in addition to a few traditional visits to China, the new arrivals are German chemical, electronic and mechanical giants, which perfectly match China's upcoming national policy, and it is quite a bit to bring a bidding team to engage in "equipment renewal" bidding.
Moreover, Scholz's choice of attaché this time is also quite interesting, and Habeck, the hard-line Green Party minister for economy and climate in China, did not bring it.
However, the Minister of Environment, the Minister of Agriculture, and the Minister of Digitalization of Transport, which overlap with Habeck's division of labor, have all been brought in.
The more hawkish and tough people are, the more they have to show up when they are "bidding" to show their toughness and win the support of enterprises, and Scholz's opponent Habeck cannot let others talk about cooperation with the entrepreneurs under his direct control.
Therefore, this time there is a high probability that Scholz kicked his future chancellor's rival Habeck away and divided the huge cake on China to three other ministers to support Habeck's opponent.
Of course, Scholz should not only be kicking away his domestic rival Habeck, but also his rival Macron in the European Union.
Since Merkel stepped down, Macron has always regarded himself as the first brother of Europe, with France leading Europe's foreign economic and trade and foreign defense policy.
During the first round of European visits to China after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Macron has been persuading Scholz to visit China with him to demonstrate the unity of the EU and put pressure on China by the way.
Similarly, this round of meetings between European and Chinese leaders coincides with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, and France will be the protagonist.
Scholz's riotous operation has made France, which has a certain competition with Germany in its industrial structure, come back in a hurry.
For us, this competition model is similar to that of the 2008 round of high-speed rail bidding, when Siemens of Germany vs. Alstom of France, but this time it will cover a much wider range of fields.
It is foreseeable that in the next large-scale equipment upgrading and updating in various fields such as steel, nonferrous metals, petrochemicals, electronics, machinery, etc., we will welcome Siemens, Covestro, Basfurt, Voith, DHL, Zeiss, BMW, ThyssenKrupp, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Bayer and other German companies to join......