Greece is renowned for its ancient civilization and democracy.
希腊以其古老的文明和民主制度而闻名。
The Parthenon, located in Athens, is a symbol of Greek architecture.
位于雅典的帕特农神庙是希腊建筑的象征。
The Greek islands, with their crystal-clear waters, are popular tourist destinations.
拥有清澈海水的希腊岛屿是热门旅游目的地。
In Greek mythology, Zeus was the king of the gods.
在希腊神话中，宙斯是众神之王。
The Olympic Games originated in Olympia,
Greece, in ancient times.
奥林匹克运动会起源于古希腊的奥林匹亚。
The Mediterranean diet, inspired by Greek cuisine, is considered healthy.
地中海饮食受到希腊美食的启发，被认为对健康有益。
The Acropolis in Athens is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
雅典的卫城是联合国教科文组织的世界遗产。
Greece has a rich history of philosophy, with figures like Socrates and Plato.
希腊有着丰富的哲学历史，有苏格拉底和柏拉图等人物。
The Greek language, with its complex grammar, is one of the oldest in Europe.
复杂的语法使得希腊语成为欧洲最古老的语言之一。
The Eurozone crisis deeply affected
Greece's economy in the late 2000s.
代末，欧元区危机对希腊经济产生了深远影响。
In April 2024, the carrier will launch flights that connect Shanghai Pudong with Athens, Greece, and is considering launching more flights connecting China with cities in Europe and the United States.
2024年4月，该航空公司将开通连接上海浦东和希腊雅典的航班，并考虑开通更多连接中国与欧洲和美国城市的航班。
China Energy has 14 overseas projects in 10 countries, including South Africa, Greece, Indonesia, Australia and Germany, spanning the fields of coal production, power generation, engineering and technological research and development.
中国能源在南非、希腊、印度尼西亚、澳大利亚和德国等10个国家拥有14个海外项目，涵盖煤炭生产、发电、工程和技术研发等领域。
The 19 countries are Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
这19个国家是奥地利、保加利亚、克罗地亚、捷克共和国、丹麦、爱沙尼亚、芬兰、希腊、匈牙利、爱尔兰、意大利、拉脱维亚、立陶宛、波兰、葡萄牙、罗马尼亚、斯洛文尼亚、西班牙和瑞典。
China Energy has 14 overseas projects in 10 countries, including South Africa, Greece, Indonesia, Australia and Germany, spanning the fields of coal production, power generation, engineering and technological research and development, according to China Energy spokesperson Chen Jing.
中国能源发言人陈静表示，中国能源在南非、希腊、印度尼西亚、澳大利亚和德国等10个国家拥有14个海外项目，涉及煤炭生产、发电、工程和技术研发等领域。
As of June, the total value of the group's overseas assets exceeded 65.4 billion yuan ($9 billion), with 14 overseas projects located primarily in South Africa, Greece, Indonesia, Australia and Germany, covering businesses from wind power to engineering and technical research and development, it said.
该公司表示，截至6月，该集团海外资产总额超过654亿元人民币（90亿美元），其中14个海外项目主要位于南非、希腊、印度尼西亚、澳大利亚和德国，涵盖从风电到工程和技术研发的业务。
The company already owns stakes in the major ports of Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Antwerp in Belgium, and controls the port of Piraeus in Athens, Greece, noted the Politico news website.
Politico新闻网站指出，该公司已经拥有荷兰鹿特丹和比利时安特卫普主要港口的股份，并控制着希腊雅典比雷埃夫斯港。
The European subsidiary of the company, for example, currently has a total installed capacity of almost 7 gigawatts since it was launched in 2011, all of which are new energy assets that are scattered mainly in Portugal, Spain, Germany, Greece, and the United Kingdom.
例如，该公司的欧洲子公司自2011年成立以来，目前总装机容量近7千兆瓦，所有这些都是新能源资产，主要分布在葡萄牙、西班牙、德国、希腊和英国。
Destinations on offer include Mediterranean holiday hotspots in Spain, Turkey and Greece as well as city breaks in London, Paris, Rome and Barcelona.
提供的目的地包括西班牙、土耳其和希腊的地中海度假热点，以及伦敦、巴黎、罗马和巴塞罗那的城市度假。
The move came as Greece's parliament approved the sale of another 16 percent stake in Piraeus Port Authority SA(PPA), the largest port in Greece, to COSCO Shipping in September.
这一举措正值希腊议会9月批准将比雷埃夫斯港务局(PPA)另外16%的股权出售给中远海运之际。PPA是希腊最大的港口。
Purchasing a majority stake in Piraeus Port－which the Chinese have already made one of the fastest-growing harbors in Europe－will facilitate China, Greece and other economies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative to enlarge their export volume and generate business opportunities in the services sector, said Zhou Zhicheng, a researcher at the Beijing-based China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing.
中国社科院物流与采购研究中心副主任周志成表示，收购比雷埃夫斯港多数股权，将有助于中国、希腊和其他参与“一带一路”倡议的经济体扩大出口规模，并在服务业创造商机。目前，中国已经将比雷埃夫斯港打造成了欧洲增长最快的港口之一。
In eight countries－the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Thailand, India, Sweden, Denmark, Greece and South Africa－the company's solutions are used extensively, he said.
他说,在阿联酋、新加坡、泰国、印度、瑞典、丹麦、希腊和南非这8个国家,该公司解决方案得到广泛使用。根据他的说法,在阿拉伯联合酋长国、新加坡、泰国、印度、瑞典、丹麦、希腊和南非等八个国家中,该公司的解决方案得到了广泛的应用。
They have been promoting a number of key projects related to the initiative, such as Greece's Piraeus port, the China-Belarus Industrial Park, the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway and the China-Laos Railway.
Apart from expanding its sales channels in global markets, in particular countries and regions involved in the BRI, CSSC subsidiaries have delivered vessels and offshore engineering equipment, including cold chain container ships, bulk carriers, chemical tankers and oil rigs, to shipowners in the United States, Norway, Greece, South Korea and Qatar over the past seven months.
China COSCO Shipping playing vital role in fixing industrial, supply chainsWith its vessels having delivered many batches of aircraft components from Germany to Airbus SE's Tianjin plant, medical supplies from China to countries including Italy, Greece and Uruguay, and frozen pork from Canada to Shanghai so far this year, China COSCO Shipping Corp has been rushing to fix and prevent disruptions to the world's industrial and supply chains caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
It has invested and operated backbone energy networks in countries like Brazil, the Philippines, Portugal, Australia, Italy and Greece.
Juneyao is planning to launch a new service from Shanghai to Athens, Greece in the middle of 2020.
"In addition to our long-term investment in our employees, we also make significant investments in the training of China's healthcare professionals, especially the young professionals," said Kopitsas, who joined the company in 2000 and previously worked in Greece, the Middle East, Africa and the US for 18 years.
Yang from DSIC said the company will keep a close eye on market demand in Greece, Germany and member economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to stabilize its export channels and develop markets participating in the development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Today, it is the largest port in Greece and became privatized in 2009 after the government's debt crisis.
An analysis of Piraeus by a Greek think tank, the Institute of Economy and Industry, predicted the port's fiscal revenues will eventually increase to 474.7 million euros, provide 31,000 jobs, and raise the GDP of Greece by 0.8 percentage point.
The port will also play a vital role in raising Greece's logistics sector output value from 400 million euros in 2015 to 2.5 billion euros by 2025, the report added.
To date, COSCO Shipping has invested in 18 terminals in countries and regions related to the Belt and Road Initiative, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Singapore, Turkey and Peru, with more in the pipeline.
As Greece exited its eight-year bailout last summer, the Piraeus port shined with rising throughput and revenues.
"It was one of the very first private investments in Greece ever, so the general reaction of the unions was not very good.
In fact, the debt crisis caused a high unemployment rate during the past few years, as the youth (age 15-24) unemployment rate in Greece hit an all time high of 60.3 percent in 2013.
Angelos Karakostas, deputy CEO of Piraeus Port Authority SA in Greece, said with almost 10 years of development, more and more local Greek people are fairly happy and optimistic about the port region's economic growth and its future prospects.
He said this proves Greece is a country in which foreign companies can invest and achieve a win-win result, and the total goods throughput of Piraeus Port is about 5 million TEUs in 2018.
Taking the Port of Piraeus in Greece that China COSCO Shipping acquired in 2016 as an example, Xu said since the company took over the port operations in 2009, the throughput capacity has increased from 680,000 metric tons a year to over 5 million tons a year till the end of 2018.
We aim to increase that to 31,000 jobs and also add 0.8 percentage points to Greece's GDP by 2025.
Apart from the port in Greece, China COSCO Shipping has so far invested 167 container lines in economies involved in the BRI, with total throughput capacity counting for 58 percent of the company's total shipping capacity, according to Xu.2018 marked a fruitful year for China COSCO Shipping in its overseas career under the BRI initiative, as Xu said the group had increased its container throughput capacity by 5 percent year-on-year and added 18 Eurasian sea-rail intermodal transportation lines.
Meanwhile Rodrigo Cipriani Foresio, director of Alibaba Group for Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece said the two companies "hope to unite our forces to offer consumers in China and the entire world, the best products and experiences".
The company has invested $19.5 billion in markets outside the Chinese mainland so far, including the acquisition of a 25 percent stake in Portugal's national power grid Redes Energeticas Nacionais, a 35 percent stake in Italian energy grid unit Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Reti, as well as the purchase of a 24 percent stake in Greece's power grid operator, ADMIE, owned by the Public Power Corp, which owns, runs and maintains the power transmission network across Greece.
A major cause of Type 2 diabetes today is urbanization," said Doustdar, who previously worked in Greece, Turkey and Malaysia.
Supported by its developed industrial chain, it is now able to operate 52 ports and 218 berths throughout the world in countries including Spain, Greece and Singapore via mergers and acquisitions over the past decade.
It has established cooperative partnerships with publishers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Greece, Japan, South Korea, India, Vietnam and Indonesia in recent years.
CTG's overseas electricity generation reached 20 billion kilowatt-hours in 2016, mainly from clean energy including hydro power, wind power and solar power, with facilities scattered across the globe, including in Brazil, Greece and Pakistan.
KOZANI, Greece — Greece's Power Public Corporation (PPC), the largest power utility in the country, is undergoing great changes as part of efforts to overcome the 7-year Greek debt crisis and plans the future seeking credible partners, PPC Chairman and CEO Manolis Panagiotakis told Xinhua in a recent interview.
The agreements PPC has sealed with major Chinese companies over the past year and bilateral collaboration so far indicate that the future for Sino-Greek cooperation in the energy sector is bright and Chinese firms can hold a key role in Greece's new strategic energy planning, Panagiotakis said.
Currently PPC has an almost 90 percent share of Greece's retail market which needs to be reduced by 40 percent under bailout commitments.
Regardless of this procedure, the memorandum of understanding PPC signed with CMEC a few months ago to build a new coal-fired electricity producing plant in Florina in northern Greece will go ahead, he told Xinhua.
Xinhua reporters visited recently the area where beats the "energy heart" of Greece.
Within a zone stretching about 100 kilometers between the cities of Florina and Kozani, some 500 kilometers north of Athens, are operating for several decades power plants that generate most of Greece's electricity.
Since Greece possesses rich lignite energy capacity, the "brown coal" has powered Greek economy for more than half a century.
Aghios Dimitrios power station at the outskirts of Kozani is Greece's largest lignite- fired power plant.
Lignite resources are still in abundance, but Greece faces pressure to reduce lignite fired production of electricity in the future, although investments have been made and measures are taken to keep below European standards dust and gas emissions in the area.
PPC's stance is that for the near future Greece needs to keep at least 27 percent of its electricity produced by lignite fired plants to ensure that its energy needs will be covered and the country will not be largely dependent on natural gas in cases of spikes in prices in the international market, Panagiotakis said.
PPC proposes carefully planned investments in lignite production, such as the Florina project, and joint ventures with investors in upgrading current units and other projects in Greece and the wider Balkans region.
The PPC chief is convinced that in Chinese enterprises Greece can find the credible partners she seeks.
He is eager to discuss the idea of establishing a smart meters production unit in Greece with CMEC or cooperation in the electric cars sector and the transfer of electricity via underwater cable interconnections linking Crete to the mainland with State Grid, he told Xinhua.
The cable system connects Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Greece, Italy and France.
Last year, the Port of Singapore Authority was extensively upgraded by the group, while it also bought the Piraeus Port Authority in Greece and invested in the Euromax Terminal Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
The State Grid Corporation of China, the country's biggest utility, said on Wednesday that it has completed purchase of a 24-percent stake in Greece's power grid operator, ADMIE.
ADMIE is owned by Greece's Public Power Corporation (PPC), which owns, runs and maintains the power transmission network across Greece.
He returns home to his wife and 17-month-old daughter proud, because he feels he is making his own contribution to a major project that has been praised internationally as a success story of bilateral cooperation between Greece and China.
Piraeus has never witnessed such glory, he told Xinhua in a recent interview as state leaders were gathering at Beijing to discuss the Belt and Road Initiative in which Greece's largest port holds a key role.
He is optimist that the work done inside the port will help Greece recover from a seven year acute debt crisis, in particular after COSCO SHIPPING also purchased the majority stake in Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) last year.
The PPA's privatization will help create 125,000 jobs, according to a survey of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research, one of Greece's leading think tanks.
"One store after the other was closing due to the economic crisis which hit Greece.
"Greece, our country, is going through very difficult years this period and it is very important for such a small country with so many problems today to become a junction, an international junction (for trade)," Zilakos stressed.
He strongly believes that China can help Greece become this junction.
Fu Chengqiu, president of Piraeus Container Terminal SA, inspects operations at Piraeus port in Athens, Greece, on Monday.
XINHUAATHENS/BEIJING － In the years since China COSCO Shipping Corp Ltd's arrival at Piraeus, the image of Greece's largest port has changed dramatically.
Other facilities such as new docks to build ships and offshore engineering facilities, as well as new parking areas, will help Greece improve its manufacturing capabilities and build Piraeus into a major vehicle transfer terminal for the Mediterranean region.
Some reservations were initially expressed in sections of Greek society about the investment, amid concerns that it would do little to alleviate the serious unemployment problem in Greece.
The development of logistics platforms for combined transport and value-added services at the port will create even bigger opportunities for Greece and its economy, Vamvakidis said.
[Photo/Agencies]PIRAEUS, Greece - It is the 22nd day on the sea for the merchant vessel (M. V. ) COSCO Netherlands to complete its voyage from China to Europe on a route known as the Maritime Silk Road.
As the largest port in Greece, Piraeus is one of the Top Ten European ports and one of the Top 50 container terminals in the world.
Located in Southeast Greece, Piraeus is one of the nearest ports to the main shipping route from the Suez Canal to Gibraltar, and serves as a hub on the west end of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
Heartwarming free lunch"Here in Greece, COSCO SHIPPING is not only seeking its own development, but also contributing to friendship between China and Greece.
With years of hard work overseas, COSCO SHIPPING has become a well-recognized name card of China in Greece.
Since 2010, Fu has managed two container terminals in Piraeus Port, Greece, where his company holds a 35-year management contract.
"China offered many opportunities for job seekers then, but the situation in Greece and Europe is different.
The shipping lines has invested in the terminals of Piraeus, Kumport and Antwerp, located respectively in Greece, Istanbul and Belgium.
Infrastructure and business activities fostering synergy in development strategies among partner economiesA railroad between China and Laos, a vehicle plant in South Africa, a container port in Greece and a highway in Jamaica — these represent just a few of the projects constructed and managed as part of the Belt and Road Initiative over the past decade.
With an annual shipbuilding capacity of 4 million deadweight tons, the company has received a large number of orders from countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative such as Algeria and Greece.
China has outperformed Greece, becoming the world's largest ship-owning country in terms of gross tonnage, according to the China Shipowners' Association.
Young consumers, in particular, are curious about different types of wine," said Liakos Constantinos, a co-founder of Greek trading company Hellenic Agora, which brought 35 different kinds of wine from Greece to the expo.
"We recently launched 'master class' activities combining an introduction to Greece's historic wine culture with wine tasting, which has been very popular.
"In Greece where the tourism industry accounts for one-fourth of its gross domestic product, Chinese people hold a special place in the local tourism stakeholders' planning and the hearts of local people.
We are getting prepared to be able to have them in Greece," he said.
After the relaxation of travel restrictions, the Chinese market will be again one of the fastest developing markets for Greece, Ioanna Papadopoulou, director of communications and marketing of the Athens International Airport, told Xinhua.
Poland, Slovenia and Greece ranked top 3 in terms of trade with Ningxia among Central and Eastern European countries.
Among the early beneficiaries of the agreement were wines produced on Greece's Samos Island.
I think that as wine is becoming more popular in China, in just a few years' time, Greek wines will conquer the market there," said Konstantinos Lazarakis, Greece's first Master of Wine.
Among the early beneficiaries of the agreement were the wines produced on Greece's Samos island.
I think that as wine is becoming more popular in China, in just a few years' time, Greek wines will conquer the market there," Greece's first Master of Wine Konstantinos Lazarakis told Xinhua.
Betty Alexandropoulou, executive director and member of the board of Enterprise Greece, said that China is an important force in restarting the world economy under COVID-19, and China has demonstrated its leading role in international trade through platforms such as the CIIE.
Recently, traffic at the port of Piraeus in Greece has increased almost tenfold and therefore it is in Hungary's interests to have Chinese goods reach West Europe the fastest way possible through Hungary," he said.
"We are very keen to accelerate the process and welcome foreign direct investments from China to Greece," the minister told an online forum organized to promote Greece-China collaboration.
Georgiadis, along with other Greek and Chinese officials and representatives from the business circle, also cited China's COSCO Shipping investment at Greece's Piraeus port as one of the successful examples of bilateral cooperation in recent years.
Cooperation between the two countries has solid foundations and there is strong willingness from both sides to work together to achieve more win-win results, said Wang Qiang, Charge d'Affaires Minister-Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Greece, while addressing the forum.
Last year, Greece and China, as good partners, supported each other and worked together to overcome difficulties while facing the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, said Wang.
This year, the two countries celebrate together the China-Greece Year of Culture and Tourism, the 200th anniversary of Greece's War of Independence as well as the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, he added.
Participants in the forum also reiterated their commitment to strengthening bonds between Greece and China in the post-pandemic era and making the most of new opportunities presented by the Belt and Road Initiative.
The "Belt and Road Invest in Greece 2021 Forum" is aimed at promoting Greece as the Hub of the Southeastern Mediterranean and as a point of entry for the European Union in such areas as logistics, technology and energy, according to the organizers of the forum.
"We invite you to invest in the field of innovation and use Greece as a hub to make similar investments in the southeastern Mediterranean," said George Floras, managing partner of Belt and Road Associates, one of the organizers of the forum.
Among them, the amount of yogurt from Greece sold through the platform was 6.5 times that of the previous year.
BRUSSELS－Preparing for a projected post-pandemic boom, Chinese companies are considering exploring opportunities in Greece as they see the Mediterranean country as a growth area after recovery from COVID-19.
During the pandemic, the Greek economy has shown strong resilience while the control and prevention of regional outbreaks have been managed in an orderly and scientific way, said Zhang Qiyue, Chinese ambassador to Greece.
"That has further improved the environment for economic development and also recovery, and has enhanced confidence among international investors in Greece," Zhang said during an online seminar on Nov 23.