The “2020 Reunion Day of German Companies”, one of the biggest Sino-German economic and trade exchanges organized by Qingdao in recent years , was held in acentennial German architecture on August 12th ,under the joint organization of the Qingdao-Germany International Business Club and German Chamber of Commerce (AHK) 

Distinguished guests including Mr. Shi Mingde, Chairman of Gesellschaft der Chinafreunde, former Chinese Ambassador to Germany and special councilor to Qingdao, Dr. Christine Althauser, German Consul General in Shanghai, Mr. Jan Jovy, general manager of AHK Shanghai attended the event and delivered speeches. 

The Reunion Day is the first large-scale Sino-German exchange event held in Qingdao since the coronavirus, attracting 60 German company and institute representatives  from Fortune Global 500 companies including Volkswagen, Bosch and Continental as well as German SMEs like Andreas Stihl, Knorr-Bremse, ElringKlinger, Lemken, Logomat, Menzerna, Santenberg and so on. The German guests showed confidence in developing in China and spoke high of the charter flight program between the two countries.

China has opened a fast lane for important business, logistics, production, technical and service personnel with Germany to accelerate reopening and ensure the stability of global supply and industrial chains amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since the introduction of the fast lane, the AHK has organized five chartered flights to facilitate the return of German business people to their workplaces and homes in China.

Three of the flights landed in Qingdao, and the Qingdao government has facilitated quarantine measures and dealt with other issues related to the return of these German business people.

The Qingdao-Germany International Business Club also offered on-site support and helped more than 800 guests from Germany return to their destinations in China after quarantine.