China and Germany are two of the world's biggest exporters and enjoy strong trade ties.

China is Germany’s largest trading partner outside the EU, while Germany is China's number-one in the EU and sixth globally. Nearly half of all EU exports to China come from Germany, and up to a quarter of EU imports from China go to Germany.

According to the German Chamber of Commerce in China, bilateral trade reached 183 billion US Dollars in 2015, an increase of 5.5 percent on the previous year.

Over the past decade, German exports to China more than tripled to about 80 billion US Dollars, though they declined by about four percent year-on-year in 2015.