Since 1978 China has been actively eager to learn from the developed world through dispatching students and encouraging scientific collaborations. For the past 40 years now, the China story is a big success: not only for becoming a world economy power, but also for great advancements in chemical sciences. I made a simple “Web of Science” search for “China” appearing in “Address” on the yearly publications in the International Edition of Angewandte Chemie. For the year 2000, I found 22 hits representing about 2 % of the total, and for 2019, I got 1283 hits, or 39 %. Most of Chinese chemists have oversea trainings including many in Germany. For...