booming - German investors flock to China

Yesterday I ended up for the first time in the Howard Johnson Hotel at Jiu Jiang Road in Shanghai, one of the many five-star hotels I had missed up to now and it was bustling with guests moving in and out. They must have heard about the hotel earlier.

I catched up with German publisher Hans Gaeng, who intends to publish my Dutch book (15 misunderstandings about China and the Chinese) into German, yes, a very good idea. Hans is Mr. China in Germany because of his long-term involvement with China-focused publications.
He was joined by Metin Erguel, vice-president of Reed Exhibitions in Germany, who visited Shanghai for the first time. He was trying to find out why about 4,000 new German companies are expected to come to China this year. He said he now knows why.
We ended up in Sasha's, of course, where I had not been for another two days.