On invitation of the Economic Development Agency of the City of Jintan, Prof. Sourkounis visited the Chinese province of Jiangsu. Opportunities for cooperation were discussed with managers from the Chinese automotive industry and will be made more concrete in the coming months.

On invitation of the Economic Development Agency of the City of Jintan, Prof. Constantinos Sourkounis visited the Jiangsu Province (bordering Shanghai) in the People's Republic of China from 20 to 26 June 2019. He discussed cooperation opportunities with managers from the Chinese automotive industry and senior local and regional politicians and visited several production facilities. In the coming months, the project ideas achieved will be put into concrete terms. In addition, Prof. Sourkounis gave a keynote speech on the subject of electric mobility at the conference "2019 China New Energy Automobile Industry Development and Power Storage Battery Technology Innovation Jintan Maoshan Summit".