IF Willy Merck had not decided to take a trip around the world in 1887 and then land on the Chinese mainland the following year in the course of that journey,the story of Merck,one of the oldest pharmaceutical c...IF Willy Merck had not decided to take a trip around the world in 1887 and then land on the Chinese mainland the following year in the course of that journey,the story of Merck,one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in the world,might have been vastly different.But the then 28-year-old,a scion of the chemical manufacturing firm E.Merck in Germany’s“city of science”Darmstadt,made the visit,and with the characteristic business acumen of generations of Mercks,spotted the potential of the China market even then.One of his letters showed a prescience of the future,“A time will come when we too in Europe will have to watch out for the Chinese,”he wrote.“For my part,I absolutely believe that China,should it wish to,shall become considerably more powerful than any other nation.”展开更多
文摘IF Willy Merck had not decided to take a trip around the world in 1887 and then land on the Chinese mainland the following year in the course of that journey,the story of Merck,one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in the world,might have been vastly different.But the then 28-year-old,a scion of the chemical manufacturing firm E.Merck in Germany’s“city of science”Darmstadt,made the visit,and with the characteristic business acumen of generations of Mercks,spotted the potential of the China market even then.One of his letters showed a prescience of the future,“A time will come when we too in Europe will have to watch out for the Chinese,”he wrote.“For my part,I absolutely believe that China,should it wish to,shall become considerably more powerful than any other nation.”
