Interview: "China Tong" witnesses China's rapid development -Cao Boyi, a former diplomat in China

Xinhua News Agency, Copenhagen, June 30th: "China Tong" witnesses China's rapid development -Cao Boyi, a former diplomat in China

Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Jing

Former Danish diplomat in China, Casten Boyl Togson (Chinese name Cao Boyi) is a "China Tong", loves Chinese culture, and went to China to learn Chinese when he was young. In the past 20 years, Cao Boyi has been settled in China. In his own words, "this can have the opportunity to see the changes in China, especially the great changes in rural areas."

Cao Boyi has been engaged in related work with China for more than 45 years. He has successively served as Consul Danish in Guangzhou and Consul in Shanghai. He has been to almost all provinces in China, and even some remote rural areas.

"For the first time, I went to Gansu around 1990. I went to Lanzhou, the capital of the provincial capital. The city could be said to be relatively backward. But 5 years ago, I went to the silver city north of Lanzhou. In the evening, when I walked into a corner of an street corner The newly opened supermarket found that the goods there were quite abundant, and the same degree of rich supermarkets in Danish cities. "Cao Boyi told Xinhua News Agency reporters a few days ago.

"And the most amazing thing is that there are seafood in the supermarket of Silver, from the sea of ​​fresh seafood from the sea!" Seeing seafood in this inland city far away from the ocean, Cao Boyi from Denmark was surprised.

For Cao Boyi, this is only a small example of China's economic development in recent years. Cao Boyi often introduced foreign friends that China has invested huge infrastructure construction and has undergone unprecedented changes. China also announced last year that it has achieved a comprehensive victory of poverty alleviation.

At present, China is accelerating the construction of a new development pattern of mutual promotion of domestic large -scale cycles and domestic and international dual cycles. Cao Boyi believes that this is based on the overall policy arrangement based on the characteristics of the international environment and the characteristics of China's domestic market. China must not only promote the strong and healthy development of the domestic market, but also open the door of foreign trade and economic cooperation.

In 2015, the Danish Chamber of Commerce awarded Cao Boyi's "Business People Lifetime Achievement Award" to recognize his contribution to serving Danzhong's business relations for more than 35 years.

"For a long time, open and standardized international trade is essential for Denmark and many European countries. We rely on the international environment of peace and freedom and open international trade rules." Cao Boyi said.

Cao Boyi hopes that European countries including Denmark will continue and expand economic and trade cooperation with China. "I very much hope that important trade relations between Europe and China can continue as in the past 40 years. This is truly in line with European interests."

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