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East China's Anhui Province and German state Lower Saxony signed a
letter of intent on cooperation and documents related to ten projects on
Friday via video to deepen cooperation in automobile, freight
logistics, and renewable energy fields. The two parties plan to establish a vocational school with German
carmaker Volkswagen based on the dual system in the German education
system. A waterway transport route connecting Hefei, the provincial capital,
and Wilhelmshaven, a port city in Lower Saxony, will also be launched
and help develop Wilhelmshaven into a German distribution center of
products made in Anhui. Moreover, Anhui University and Leibniz University Hannover teamed up
to set up a joint research center for materials science, the foreign
affairs office of Anhui said. Since Anhui and Lower Saxony signed the joint declaration for
cooperation in 1984 and established one of the longest China-German
regional partnerships, a series of industrial collaborations are in full
swing based on high industrial relevance and strong compatibility. In December 2020, the Volkswagen Group, headquartered in Lower
Saxony, saw its joint venture Volkswagen (Anhui) Automotive Company
Limited, and a new research and development center inaugurated in Hefei.
The construction of the group's modular electric drive matrix (MEB)
plant is also underway, and the plant will likely go into operation in
the second half of 2023. The two parties will deepen their win-win cooperation in hydrogen
energy and other renewable energy, as well as health care and scientific
research, said Lower Saxony's minister president Stephan Weil via video
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