On August 27, Vice President Zhang Junkuo met with Mr. Alfred Schimidt, Chairman of the Business Delegation Network Hesse-China. Vice President Zhang introduced China’s economic and social policies since the Eighteenth National Congress of CPC and-the Western Development strategies in China. Both sides also exchanged views on fields of future Sino-German cooperation. Mr. Hou Yongzhi, Director General of the Research Department of Development Strategy and Regional Economy and Mr. Zhao Jinping, Director General of the Research Department of Foreign Economic Relations, were present at the meeting.