ShenyangMay 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On May 22, TÜV Süd (hereinafter referred to as “TÜV Süd”) officially inaugurated its newly upgraded office in Shenyang with a relocation ceremony. This move represents a key strategic deployment by TÜV Süd, based on its firm confidence in the long-term development potential of Northeast China, aimed at further optimizing market layout, enhancing local service efficiency, and better empowering regional clients. Notably, 2026 marks two significant milestones — the 160th anniversary of TÜV Süd’s founding and the 20th anniversary of TÜV Süd Greater China’s Shenyang office serving the local region. The convergence of these dual milestones not only reflects the passage of time and heritage but also imbues this relocation and upgrade with special strategic significance and commemorative value, fully demonstrating TÜV Süd’s commitment to deepening its roots in Shenyang and supporting industrial upgrading and comprehensive revitalization in Northeast China. Moving forward, the office will leverage a more comprehensive service system and more professional technical capabilities to inject strong momentum into regional high-quality development. Leaders including Mr. Dirk von Wahl, CEO of TÜV Süd North Asia; Mr. Wang Weijie, Head of Beijing Office, Greater China; Mr. Robert Puto, Senior Vice President, Greater China; Mr. Lü Yuexian, Vice President of Marketing, North Asia; and Mr. Xing Ruijiang, General Manager of Shandong and Northeast Region, attended the ceremony, witnessing this important moment alongside local client representatives, partners, and employees.
Group Photo at Ceremony
Shenyang, known as the “Eldest Son of the Republic,” once wrote a glorious chapter in the history of New China’s industrial development and remains a vital heavy industry base. Today, this old industrial city is accelerating its transformation and upgrading, moving away from a single-development model centered on traditional heavy industry to achieve breakthroughs and diversified growth in sectors such as automotive, intelligent manufacturing, new energy, aerospace, and biomedicine. As a centrally approved international central city in Northeast Asia, a national advanced manufacturing center, and an international comprehensive transportation hub, Shenyang has become a core link connecting Northeast Asia and radiating across Northeast China. It serves as a key gateway for China’s opening to the north, holding a strategically important position in regional coordinated development and the country’s opening-up framework, and bearing the crucial mission of leading the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China. The 2026 Two Sessions clearly designated “achieving new breakthroughs in the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China” as a core task for regional coordinated development. As the core engine and strategic fulcrum for the revitalization of Liaoning and the broader Northeast region, Shenyang is embracing unprecedented development opportunities. As TÜV Süd’s key service window in Northeast China, the relocation and upgrade of the Shenyang office is not only an important step for the group to optimize its national service network and strengthen regional synergy but also a concrete practice of proactively responding to national strategies, deeply integrating into regional development, and supporting Shenyang’s high-quality industrial upgrading.
Comprehensively developing new quality productive forces is the core focus of Northeast revitalization. Currently, Shenyang is striving to build a regional science and technology innovation center and establish a “3+4+3” modern industrial system: strengthening three traditional industries (automotive, equipment manufacturing, and food); expanding four emerging industries (aerospace, biomedicine, next-generation information technology, and new energy); and forward-looking deployment of three future industries (embodied intelligence, future materials, and aerospace equipment), driving industrial transformation towards intelligence, green development, and high-end orientation. Leveraging the group’s 160 years of deep technical expertise and global resource advantages in testing, certification, and knowledge services, combined with Shenyang’s industrial development characteristics, TÜV Süd’s Shenyang office will further leverage its professional strengths to deeply cultivate the local market. In the automotive sector, it will assist enterprises in achieving electrification and intelligent transformation, meeting the needs of local automakers and facilitating alignment with international standards. In intelligent manufacturing, building on cooperation experience with local Shenyang institutions, it will promote business related to automation production line safety certification and robot testing and certification, as well as local client liaison, helping to connect with the group’s core service resources and support the intelligent transformation and digitalization of enterprises like Shenyang Machine Tool, aligning with the digital development needs of Shenyang’s industrial enterprises. In emerging fields such as new energy and biomedicine, it will precisely match industrial development needs, connect with energy storage and hydrogen projects and biomedical clusters, and promote full lifecycle technical service-related business. In the area of green, low-carbon, and sustainable development, it will upgrade localized service capabilities, addressing service demands for manufacturing green and low-carbon transformation, carbon footprint accounting, and ESG consulting, supporting the region’s “dual carbon” and sustainable development goals. This expanded presence will drive TÜV Süd’s deep involvement in cultivating regional new quality productive forces, making it a key service support for Shenyang’s industrial upgrading, helping optimize and upgrade the regional industrial structure, and positioning it as a critical service provider for regional industrial advancement.
At the relocation ceremony, Mr. Dirk von Wahl, CEO of TÜV Süd North Asia, delivered a welcome speech, stating: “Expanding the Shenyang office is a key strategic move for our company to deeply integrate into the comprehensive revitalization strategy of Northeast China and seize the dual opportunities of Shenyang as an international central city in Northeast Asia and a national advanced manufacturing center. The new office will leverage the group’s global technical resources and local deep-rooted experience, focusing on key industries such as automotive, intelligent manufacturing, and new energy. It will precisely address the core needs of regional high-quality development by promoting services including certification, testing, and auditing, as well as knowledge services such as disseminating standard updates and interpreting new standards. This will help regional industries align with international standards, achieving a resonance between enterprise value and regional development.”
Mr. Dirk von Wahl of TÜV Süd Delivers Welcome Speech
The relocation to new premises marks both a new starting point and a new journey. This upgrade of TÜV Süd’s Shenyang office not only optimizes the working environment and enhances service capabilities but also underscores the group’s firm determination to grow together with Shenyang and develop alongside Northeast China. In the future, TÜV Süd’s Shenyang office will present a new image and provide professional services, continuously deepening collaboration with local enterprises and partners. It will inject more TÜV Süd strength into the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China and the high-quality development of Shenyang, working hand in hand with all partners to embark on a renewed journey and co-create a new chapter in regional development.