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SHANGHAI - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday the Shanghai Import Expo was a unique trade show for development and business and that Serbia was China's greatest friend in Europe.

SHANGHAI - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic met with Chinese Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai Chen Jining on Monday.

Vucevic said he was very honoured Serbia was again participating in the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, launched in 2018 at the initiative of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

BELGRADE - On January 11, Air Serbia will launch direct flights between Belgrade and Shanghai (Shanghai Pudong Airport - PVG), the national airline announced on Tuesday.

In a statement, Air Serbia said it would operate flights on the route twice a week during the upcoming winter season.

Chinese airline Juneyao marked its significant opening to the Greek tourism market last week with the inauguration of the first direct flight from Shanghai to Athens.

At a quiet cemetery in eastern China, bereaved father Seakoo Wu pulls out his phone, places it on a gravestone and plays a recording of his son.

They are words that the late student never spoke, but brought into being with artificial intelligence.

"I know you're in great pain every day because of me, and feel guilty and helpless," intones Xuanmo in a slightly robotic voice.

Agri-food, high technology, construction materials, medical equipment, medicines and cosmetics, biotechnology and health services are sectors of interest for the development of cooperation networks between Greek and Chinese companies, according to the conclusions of a visit by a Chinese delegation to the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EBEA).

Greek Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister for Economic Diplomacy and Openness Kostas Fragogiannis met on Monday with a visiting 10-member Chinese delegation from the Shanghai Lin-gang Special Area.

With the delegation - which is on a four-day working visit - Fragogiannis discussed matters pertaining to investments and other mutual economic interests.

Residents of parts of Shanghai and Beijing have been ordered to undergo further rounds of COVID-19 testing following the discovery of new cases in the two cities, while tight restrictions remain in place in Hong Kong, Macao and other Chinese cities.

Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people in their homes, fueling frustration as the government tries to contain a spreading outbreak.

The fund is ready to secure around one billion euros for the purpose in the first stage, the Sino-RS company president, Jin Frank Li, has told Tanjug.

The idea is to establish a separate investment fund for financing transport, energy, telecommunications, agriculture and construction projects, with public-private partnership as one of the models, Li said.