Delegation of the Chinese Development Research Center Visits ZEW

On 4 June 2013, an expert delegation from the Public Administration and Human Resources Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council (DCR) in Beijing visited the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim.

Thomas Kohl, Director of Business and Administration at ZEW, welcomed the group of twenty executives at the institute. On its 3-week journey, the delegation from China has focused on economic and social policy in Germany. Thomas Kohl introduced the institute and gave insights into established contacts and collaborations of ZEW with Chinese institutions. Prof. Dr. Holger Bonin, head of the Research Department “Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy”, presented ZEW’s research and the results of projects on the evaluation of labour market policy measures. In the following discussion, the representatives of DRC addressed possibilities to integrate young people into the labour market. Furthermore, the delegation was particularly interested in the administration of as well as the economic and labour market policy in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region.