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Education, Culture and Commerce Exchange Between Belgium and China
Education, culture and commerce exchange between Belgium and China

I. Introduce the relation of Belgium and China
Belgium started to formally declare the establishment of diplomatic relations with China on 25th October 1971. But the first history of relation between China and low country could track back to the Chinese Ching Era (1644-1911), which was organized by Ferdinand verbiest foundation in Leuven in September 1995, including the scholars from the other countries of Europe, also North America, Australia, China. This presentation was exploring the relationship between China and Low Countries, including the affairs to the Holland and Belgium. Many of the topics are dealt with the problems of cultural contact and the exchange, of acculturation and enculturation, the transmission of scientific knowledge, etc.
In 1971, before Chinese open up in 1978, Belgium established the diplomatic relation with China for following reasons. First, France established the diplomacy relation with China in the early 1964, which is because in January of 1959, General de Gaulle advocate its Gaullist, which have its policies competing with the United States, which is similar to the role of the Sino-French: a challenge to U.S. hegemony in the global scale which does not tame allies; a obey baton wants to struggle out of Soviet "family members". So these two countries have common goals towards their governance. Later on, Belgium was follow up France to establish relationship between China. Besides, as a huge population among the east countries, China became a mere object of Western economic interests and power politics. So thus Europe countries, especially Sweden, Demark, Switzerland, German, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Italy, etc. are the first few countries that establish diplomatic relation between China.
On the March 17th, 2005, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing met at Brussels, Belgium. Later on Li Zhaoxing also met

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