PTC ASIA - high level of international participation

Editor's note: Hartmut Rauen, director of the German Engineering Federation's (VDMA) Industry Association for Power Transmission Engineering and Fluid Power, spoke with China Daily's Miao Jie about the global power transmission sector and related exhibitions, recently.

Q: Could you enlighten us a bit on trends in the global power transmission and fluid power fields?

A: The power transmission and fluid power sectors are the largest suppliers in Germany's mechanical engineering field, and together employ over 110,000 people and generated around 19.6 billion euros ($27 billion) in turnover, in 2010.