Building on a long friendship

The relationship between Denmark and China is flourishing in business, science, culture, and many other areas. But this is no huge surprise, it's a relationship that goes back hundreds of years, says Friis Arne Petersen, ambassador of Denmark in China.

The Danish king began to send trading ships and expeditions to Asia and China as early as the 16th century, Petersen says. The first bilateral diplomatic relationship, established in 1908, never formally ended but just resumed after the founding of New China in 1949.

This year marks the 65th anniversary of the renewal of diplomatic relations between the two nations, and they are getting stronger as they go, Petersen says.