HAMBURG, Nov. 23 -- The seventh Hamburg Summit "China Meets Europe" opened here on Wednesday, drawing senior officials, entrepreneurs and leading scholars from China and the European Union (EU) to discuss the most important issues in Sino-European economic relations.
About 550 participants from China and Europe gathered at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday to exchange views through 10 panel discussions and keynote speeches.
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said in his opening speech that China was of special importance to Germany as well as to the whole of Europe, adding that China and Germany had built a very successful partnership in the last four decades.
He said Germany continued to be China's most important partner in Europe, with Germany opting for political cooperation with China over recent decades.
"Cooperation, rather than confrontation, should characterize the relationships between countries, even when their political and economic systems differ," said Schroeder, who was made honorary chairman of the conference this year and received the China-Europe Friendship Award on Wednesday in recognition of his outstanding achievements in cultivating relations with China.
In today's world, there is no country that can master all these new challenges alone, he noted. "This is why we must intensify the strategic partnership with China in all areas, in politics and culture, as well as in the economy and civil society."
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