Sino-Finnish relationships bond longer and stronger

"All in all we have very intensive and broad relationship with China on many levels," Antti Kuosmanen, ambassador of Finland said to China Daily in a recent interview. "I don't see any reason why we could not expand our relations further and I do not see any particular bilateral political problems arising between our two countries."

"Relations between our countries have always remained good without any political problems," he said.

Finland, along with Norway, Denmark and Sweden, was among the first Western countries to recognize the People's Republic of China when it did so on January 13, 1950. The two countries established formal diplomatic relations on October 28 the same year. Finland's first Ambassador to China, Helge von Knorring, presented his credentials to Chairman Mao Zedong on May 9, 1952.