Greece-China Association

Andreas Potamianos, president of the Greece-China Association, has hailed China's development over the past decades as "tremendous."
Potamianos, 86, a decades-long leading player in Greek shipping, told Xinhua that when he first visited China in the 1980s, when there was sparse automobile traffic in cities, he knew that something significant would take place in the Asian country.

Back in the Nineties, Chinese entrepreneurs first began to establish themselves in Greece, creating settlements in both Athens and Thessaloniki. More and more shops with traditional Chinese lanterns began to appear. Not long after that, the Chinese community began to host its first New Year’s lion dances to celebrate New Year festivities.