Frank Sieren is one of Germany's leading experts on China. The journalist, book author and documentary filmmaker has been living in Beijing since 1994 and writes about the developments of the new world power. He was a longstanding contributor to Wirtschaftswoche, Die Zeit, and Handelsblatt, He has published several bestselling books on China such as “The China Code”, “The China Shock”, and “The Future? China!”. Frank Sieren also convinced Germany’s elder statesman Helmut Schmidt to share his insights on China. The 88-year old Schmidt granted the young author access to unpublished meeting transcripts of his numerous talks with Chinese leaders. Schmidt is the last living German to have met with Mao Zedong. An account of these extraordinary experiences, unfolding over long discussions with Sieren, resulted in the book “Neighbour China”, which has been amongst the top bestsellers in its class since coming onto the market. It has also been translated into Chinese and has been read by China’s former President Hu Jintao. Sieren, who studied political science with a focus on economics in Berlin is one of the few German journalists, who has reported on China’s rise first hand as he accompanies this remarkable process from his unique Beijing vantage point.