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The Greek short film “Christos and Dimitra” by director Amerissa Basta received third place at the first ever EU-China Short Film Festival (Beijing, 28/9/2017).

Greek Culture Minister Ms Lydia Koniordou discussed with Chinese officials the promotion of Greek cinema in China as well as the prospects for increasing co-productions and other cooperation schemes with Chinese producers.

Chinese airline Air China launches Beijing–Athens non-stop flights twice a week.

As the People's Republic of China Ambassador to Greece, Mr Zou Xiaoli, noted at the Chinese embassy reception on the occasion of 68th anniversary of the founding of the PRC and the 45th anniversary of China-Greece diplomatic relations.

Greek Minister of Culture and Sports, Ms Lydia Koniordou concluded, on 24 September 2017, an official visit to China (Shanghai, Dunhuang, Beijing, 17-24 September, 2017), which yielded significant results, creating a new momentum for the future.

Two delegations, one from the French-speaking channel of China’s CCTV network and onefrom China Radio International (CRI) had meetings with the General Secretary for Media and Communication, Mr Lefteris Kretsos and Greek Public Broadcaster (ERT) executives, to discuss the widening of Greece-China cooperation in radio and television sector.

Greece-china2017.gr is presenting today, an interview with Paul Firos, founder of the Herakleidon Museum in Athens. The Museum is participating in events of the “2017 Greece-China Year of Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation of Creative Industries", by hosting, from 23 September 2017 to 29 April 2018, the exhibition "Ancient Chinese Science and Technology" of the China Museum of Science and Technology in Beijing. In addition, from October 2017 to March 2018, the Herakleidon will present the exhibition “EUREKA – Science, art and technology of the Ancient Greeks”, at the China Museum of Science and Technology in the Chinese capital.

The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) is hosting the exhibition XIEYI CHINESE PAINTING: Masterpieces from the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) from 22 September to through 14November 2017, as part of events for the Greece-China Year of Cultural Exchanges.