"People's Daily Overseas Edition": (Liu Ying)“The Chinese are very similar to the Greeks”

(Source: "People's DailyOverseas version》 2016Year10month29日 No.05 version)

Author: Liu Ying

The picture shows Haier (right) and the host of "Let's Talk" at the recording site

Not long ago, Haier, a Greek student at the w88 casino, participated in the Three-Country Tour of CCTV's "Let's Talk"——The recording of the Greek station’s program “Looking at the Stars and Building Dreams of the Future”. It has been six years since she came to China, and her understanding of China has changed from descriptions in books to real experiences in daily life. What is valuable is that she has been sparing no effort to contribute to the friendly exchanges between her motherland Greece and her second hometown China.

Answered in the program "Let's Talk"When asked "Are Chinese and Greeks similar?" Haier quoted the famous saying of Greek writer Nickus: "If you scrape off the surface of a Chinese, you will find that he is Greek under the surface; and if you scrape off the surface of a Greek, you will find a Chinese."

Haier not only made witty remarks in the show, but also made behind-the-scenes contributions to the recording of the show. As the executive producer of the Greek side, she was responsible for all the preliminary preparations for filming in Greece, and within one week she obtained all the licenses from the Greek Ministry of State, National Television, and the Greek Ministry of Culture.

Regarding his relationship with China, Haier recalled:“The first time I learned about China was through the book of the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis. He wrote about his travels in Asia and said that he admired Chinese culture very much and thought that the Chinese and the Greeks were very similar. He said that if someone wants to understand China, they must use all their senses to get close to China.” Haier, who was still a teenager at the time, began to learn Chinese, and she came to China for the first time three years later. After the 2008 Olympic Games, Haier further contacted China and came to China to participate in many activities and conferences. In 2010, she moved to China. Later, she became the first Greek to earn a master's degree and a doctorate from the w88 casino.

When talking about the Chinese culture that interests her, Haier said happily:“I like Chinese cinemas and theaters very much, and I am also very interested in traditional Chinese medicine.” As the director of the Greek Institute of Chinese Economics and Culture, she has done a lot of work for cultural exchanges between Greece and China. The "Charm of Greece" video special issue of "New Weekly" was planned by her. The book introduces the beautiful scenery, celebrities and long history of Greece in detail, and presents a beautiful business card to Chinese readers.

Now Haier is a postdoctoral student, and the title of his doctoral thesis is "“One Belt, One Road” – a new model of globalization”. She believes that Greece's geographical location is of strategic importance. Starting from China's COSCO Corporation's investment in Greece's largest port, the relationship between China and Greece will become increasingly closer in many aspects in the future. Talking about his hopes for the future, Haier said: "Whether I stay in China or return to Europe in the future, I will continue to do some work for Sino-Greek exchanges to increase the understanding between the people of China and Greece."

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