SHANGHAI Mayor Yang Xiong met Michael Kaschke, president and CEO of Zeiss Group, on September 14. He congratulated the German optical and medical equipment producer for moving its China headquarters to Shanghai Free Trade Zone.

Yang said the Shanghai FTZ is a testing ground for China’s reform and opening policies. Shanghai is conducting a series of institutional reform and innovation to facilitate investment and trade and to further open up the financial sector.

The mayor told the guests that Shanghai is making innovation a public movement and is accelerating its pace to become a global innovation center. Shanghai wants to cooperate with foreign multinationals in innovation. He said he is glad to see Zeiss Group setting up its R&D center in Shanghai in 2012 and working closely with its Chinese partners.