On February 14, 2023, Wang Liang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of Shandong Provincial People’s Congress, led the legislative research group to Zibo to investigate the modification of the Regulations on the Promotion of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of Shandong Province and the construction of grassroots legislative contacts of Shandong Provincial People’s Congress. On the morning of the same day, the research team went to Rhein Koester for investigation, accompanied by Sun Qinglei, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Standing Committee of Zibo Municipal People’s Congress, Bi Hongwei, deputy mayor of the Municipal People’s Government and other leaders.

The research group expressed their full affirmation of Rhein Koester innovative achievements in key industry areas such as intelligent manufacturing, digitalisation and industrial internet and the industrial layout that effectively links the “industry chain – innovation chain – education chain – talent chain”.