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Mr Karamanlis’ visit to China is mainly to promote Greek agricultural products, including olive  oil , feta cheese and other .
"We hope to enhance cooperation with China in the fields of shipping, energy, investment, tourism, culture and education." he said.
Greece had succeeded in hosting the Olympic Games in 2004 and China will host the 2008 Games, which has provided important opportunities for both sides to enhance cooperation in hosting the Olympics, he said.
"We are also willing to make positive efforts in lifting obstacles to Sino-European relations and promote overall development of Sino-European relations." he said.
Shipping is one of the most important fields in which the two countries co-operate with each other.
    Greece boasts one of the world's largest mercantile fleets while China is the third largest shipbuilding country on the globe.
    As a result, Chinese shipyards build many vessels for the Greek mercantile fleet and the latter often carries Chinese cargo. Greece also wants to export more food products to China, including olive oil, Feta cheese and fruit.
    As the next city to host the Olympic Games, Beijing has a lot to learn from Athens, which ran a very successful Olympic Games in 2004.
A lot of Greek companies has open subsidiaries in china .  China has different culture and laws from Greece . Here is an interesting article about laws in china



Allthough there is always some scepticism about expansion of Chinese in Greece growing the relation of the 2 countries is always desirable .