Jan Wagner speaks to Mayor Jian Zhong Jin about how the auto industry has attracted foreign investors to the Shanghai suburb of Jiading.
If there is anyone who best represents the face of the new free enterprise-oriented and outward-looking China, it has to be Jian Zhong Jin, the mayor of Jiading, a suburb of Shanghai. The 49-year-old Mr Jin is presiding over the transformation of his town from an agricultural backwater into a leading place of investment for the global automotive industry.