“Strategic milestone reached.” On Tuesday, Germany’s Volkswagen Group announced on its website the completion of its new full-platform testing and R&D center – the Volkswagen Group China Technology Company (VCTC) – in Hefei, East China’s Anhui Province. This new center is the first in Volkswagen’s history capable of completing a full vehicle-platform development cycle – from concept to market readiness – outside Germany.
This strategic move, hailed by the industry as the “Hefei model,” represents deep China-Germany synergy amid the sweeping transformation of the global automotive sector. It punctures the illusion promoted by some Western politicians about “decoupling” from China, and provides the world with a convincing case of win-win industrial cooperation.
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