The company plans to build a research, development and manufacturing facility for parts for new energy vehicles and automated-driving technology in Suzhou, a city in the country’s east, Bosch said in a statement on Thursday.“China is the world’s largest auto market, full of promise and vitality.As a multinational enterprise, we need to make full use of the country’s local R&D capability and production capacity,” Stefan Hartung, chairman of the board of management of Bosch, said in the statement.The announcement comes two months after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited China with a team of top executives.While some in Scholz’s coalition government are growing nervous about Germany’s economic ties with China, Berlin is hardly in a position to rock the boat with Beijing as it grapples with the challenge of reviving its struggling economy."