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Dear Participants to the 4th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium,

We hope you enjoyed the Symposium and your stay in Rovaniemi. It has been our great pleasure to host you here and we would like to thank you for active involvement in the sessions and discussions that have been taking place over those days. We are also happy to announce that the 5th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium will take place in 2017 at the Dalian Maritime University in China.

We look forward to meeting you next year!

Programme and photos

Please find the programme here. See the Arctic Centre's Flickr album from the Symposium

Sessions of the Symposium were

1. Arctic tourism
2. Arctic sustainability    
3. The GlobalArctic: Globalization and the Arctic
4. China, Nordic countries and the Arctic

Session descriptions >

Opening speeches

• The Speaker Maria Lohela, Parliament
• The Ambassador for Arctic Affairs Aleksi Härkönen

The China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium is the annual meeting of the China-Nordic Arctic Research Center (CNARC), a network of eleven Member Institutes, five Chinese and six Nordic, which all have capacities to influence and coordinate Arctic research. 

The 4th China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium (CNARC) took place in the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland from the 6th to 9th of June 2016.

CNARC’s purpose is to provide a platform for academic cooperation to increase awareness, understanding and knowledge of the Arctic and its global impacts, as well as to promote cooperation for sustainable development of the Nordic Arctic and coherent development of China in a global context.

Contacts and more information

Malgorzata Smieszek, malgorzata.smieszek@ulapland.fi, +358 40 4844400
Markku Heikkilä, markku.heikkila@ulapland.fi, + 358 40 4844300

China-Nordic Arctic Research Center
Chen Xu, xuchen@pric.org.cn, +86 137 6451 8808
Egill Nielsson, egillnielsson@pric.org.cn, +86 131 6241 7903
Deng Beixi, dengbeixi@pric.org.cn, +86 185 0170 2377

CNARC website: www.cnarc.info