"How is it? What do you think?"
After showing them around Preston Company's office building, the Chairman said proudly, "Our company may be nowhere near as powerful as global giants like Novartis and Roche, but here in Zurich, we're still one of the top hundred companies."
"Not bad."
Chen Chen nodded, his expression somewhere between a smile and a smirk.
Most Swiss people might have thought Chen Chen really meant it, but only Qian Wenhuan could understand how he felt.
The so-called Preston Company office building was actually a modest five-story building made almost entirely of glass. In the Central Continent Region, it would have been standard fare even in a fifth-tier city.
Chen Chen was used to Shangdu's clusters of Grade A 5A office towers, each of which could easily reach a hundred stories. So the fact that he didn't say, "This little mud hut is pretty refined," was already a compliment.
Apart from its clean air and exotic charm throughout the city, Zurich really was about the size of a fifth-tier city.
However, Chen Chen had chosen to open a branch in Switzerland not because he valued its prosperity, but because of the environment and systems surrounding the life sciences here.
Switzerland had long been the country with the highest cancer survival rate in the world.
That was because Switzerland was home to world-famous biological research institutions, numerous pharmaceutical companies that prioritized research, and a large pool of highly qualified life sciences researchers.
Compared to other life sciences hubs around the world, Switzerland was at the cutting edge of the field.
It was home to two of the world's top ten pharmaceutical companies, Roche and Novartis, as well as a large number of world-class pharmaceutical companies.
Eventually, these companies had formed four "Bio Valleys" in Switzerland, much like