2017年CRI Meeting for China-Sweden green cooperation

 

Chinese Ambassador to Sweden, Chen Yuming, addresses this year's China-Sweden Green Cooperation Conference. [Photo: China Plus/Chen Xuefei]

This year's China-Sweden Green Cooperation Conference has come to an end.

The 3-day event has been held two years after the inaugural¹ session in Sweden.

Some 260 people from China and Sweden have taken part in this year's Conference, touring waste and water treatment facilities as part of Sweden's eco-city program.

Chinese Ambassador to Sweden, Chen Yuming, says the Green Cooperation initiative provides a valuable experience for everyone involved.

"This conference is important for bilateral² relations, for bilateral collaboration³ between business people from two countries and for companies from two countries. It will be an important event to promote further bilateral collaboration between China and Sweden towards new partnership⁴ and towards new economy."

Sweden's Minister for Enterprise and Innovation, Mikael Damberg, says they hope to make Sweden a development model for the rest of the world.

"We need business partners in the private society, collaboration between Swedish companies and Chinese companies but we also need to scale up the potential because if we really want to challenge societal challenges, and face them all, it is not enough to deal with it with 10 million people in Sweden, we have to do it in a bigger scale."

Damberg says China is primed to become even more involved in Sweden's social and economic growth, noting the ties that already exist, such as Geely's purchase of Volvo a few years ago.

Green Cooperation Conference organizer Elizabeth Soderberg suggests Swedish interest in China is also on the rise.

"We have 260 people, half of them from China or Chinese companies, half from Sweden. So that is more than double we had the first time we arranged the conference."

The conference itself is a combined effort involving the Chinese Embassy in Sweden, the Sweden-China Trade Council, the Sweden-China Greentech Alliance and the Swedish Environment Institute IVL.

IVL Vice⁵ Chair Osten Ekengren says the Conference, aside from providing insight into environmental advances, is also a good opportunity for business leaders to share ideas.

"We saw more and more cooperation with China, so we want to establish conference so we can share experiences, and also more and more developed solutions together, so we have chosen three areas from both sides and many Swedish companies from Sweden-China Trade Council so it is a good opportunity to meet Chinese companies and decision makers⁶."

Corporations such as Ericsson, Huawei and the Bank of China have also lent their support to the 3-day conference, which has included tours of some of Sweden's most advanced waste and water treatment facilities.

1 inaugural   

adj.就职的；n.就职典礼

参考例句：

• We listened to the President's inaugural speech on the radio yesterday.昨天我们通过无线电听了总统的就职演说。
• Professor Pearson gave the inaugural lecture in the new lecture theatre.皮尔逊教授在新的阶梯讲堂发表了启用演说。

2 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

3 collaboration   

n.合作，协作；勾结

参考例句：

• The two companies are working in close collaboration each other.这两家公司密切合作。
• He was shot for collaboration with the enemy.他因通敌而被枪毙了。

4 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

5 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

6 makers   

n.制造者，制造商（maker的复数形式）

参考例句：

• The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
• The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》