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China–Sweden Relations
China–Sweden relations are the bilateral relations between :China and :Sweden. Sweden was the second Western country to establish official diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, on 9 May 1950. History Sweden's and China's ties goes back to the 17th century. Sweden traded with China, and this was recorded by Nils Matsson Kiöping, who visited southern China on the '' Götheborg'' in 1654 and wrote accounts of his journeys to China upon his return to Sweden. The Swedish East India Company traded with China from 1731 to 1813. New research on 1913-1917 post-Qing relations claim that the head of the Swedish Geological Survey, Johan Gunnar Andersson's work was part of Sweden's ‘extractive vision’ which dealt with aiding exploitative interests of Swedish industrial and foreign-policy actors by seeking to secure, for Sweden, a quasi-colonial presence in Republican China, centering on large-scale extraction of Chinese iron ore, profit-maximizing iron exports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the world's second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land. With an area of nearly , it is the third-largest country by total land area. The country is divided into 33 province-level divisions: 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. China is considered one of the cradles of civilization: the first human inhabitants in the region arrived during the Paleolithic; by the late second millennium BCE, the earliest dynastic states had emerged in the Yellow River basin. The eighth to third centuries BCE saw a breakdown in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |