Sixteen foreign journalists were impressed by China's development during a visit to the Chinese embassy in Stockholm on Wednesday.
With the purpose of understanding more about the culture and development in China, PROFOCA,(Professional Foreign Correspondent Association), and the Political Sector of the Chinese embassy organized this activity.
Zhou Lulu, director of the Political Sector of the embassy said that this year marked the 30th anniversary of China's reform and opening up policies which brought China great changes and achievements. Thus a film which is titled Colorful Seasons was shown to the journalist.
The film described China's development as four seasons in four main areas in China. Spring refers to Shenzhen which was the first special economic zone in southeast China in the early 1980s when China just began reform and opening up.
Summer refers to Shanghai's development after the successful decade long experiment in Shenzhen. Shanghai's development just stunned people by its tremendous changes and progress.
Autumn refers to the development in western regions where there are rich natural resources. The film reflected the changes and progress in western China such as Xinjiang Uygor Autonomous Region, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and Yunnan.
Winter refers to the snowy season in Northeast China. The area used to be a very developed state-owned industrial base but experienced very harsh time of restructuring by laying off many workers. However, after 2003 when the central government made the new policy of re-enhancing the old industrial base, development in Northeast China has also been catching up. Winter is also a time for the Chinese traditional Spring Festival which symbolizes the Spring is coming. On the other hand, the beautiful snow also makes it an attraction for tourism and skiing.
Through these four seasons in four areas in China, the film tries to give a whole picture of development and progress in the whole country.
On the question of environmental pollution in China, Director Zhou said with the fast economic development, there is also an urgency to solve the pollution problem.
"During the Olympics, China made great efforts to deal with the pollution. In total China's greenhouse emission is very large due to its huge population and production for the whole world. But on average (per capita) emission, China is very low, it is only one third of the developed countries. But it doesn't mean that we have an excuse. We are doing our best to improve our environment and reduce greenhouse gas emission," said Director Zhou.
About the cooperation between China and Sweden, she said that China likes to learn from Sweden about environment protection and reduction of greenhouse gas emission. Swedish Prime Minister Reinfeldt's visit to China mostly focused on this issue.
She also said that China's Jilin province has cooperation with Vasaloppet in skiing competition.
Director Zhou also answered journalists' questions about Taiwan, the Dalai Lama, family planning policies and other issues.
The sixteen journalists including Jose Luis Belmar from Voice of America and Vincenzon Lanza from La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper, were mostly from European and American countries. There was also one correspondent from Iran, one from India and two from People's Daily to attend the occasion. They are all based in Stockholm but sending stories back to their homeland.
By Xuefei Chen, People's Daily Online correspondent in Stockholm.
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