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States: the Kingdom of Sweden (The Kingdom of Sweden)Independence Day: June 6 (June 6, 1809, Sweden passed the first modern constitution. 1983, the Council formally announced on June 6 for Sweden's National Day.)Flag: blue, yellow cross slightly to the left.Blue and yellow colors of Sweden imperial emblem of the color.National Emblem: The national emblem for the cloak-and decorated with the crown of a Yellow Cross Blue Shield was divided into four: the upper left and lower right of the painting are three crown; upper right and lower left of the painting is wearing the crown of the Golden Lion.The shield of a small shield from the left side of the blue, white, red colour denim and a bottle of the composition of the right painted a castle-style clock tower and a Golden Eagle.Blue Shield is on both sides of the Golden Lion, the bottom of the medal.Small area for the crown of the national emblem of the Blue Shield, face shield 3 Golden Delicious is a symbol of the Kingdom of Sweden, was also a symbol of the Danish Union of Kalmar, Sweden and Norway.National Anthem: "Du gamla, Du fria"State bird: Ukraine thrush (Baishe)State stone: small (water) crystalNational political figures: King Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl XVI Gustaf), 1973年9月inherit the throne; Prime Minister Goran Persson (Goran Persson), 1996年3 conference since assuming the prime minister, in October 2002 re-election.Physical Geography: Located in the Nordic Scandinavia east.Northeast of the border with Finland, Norway and the western and north-west adjacent to the east Bin Baltic Sea, North Sea southwest of the Council, the territorial area of 449,900 square kilometers (not including the territorial sea area).About 2,181 km coastline.Since the terrain northwest to southeast tilt.Nordland plateau to the north, the highest peak Ke Buna Kaiser peak 2,123 meters above sea level, mostly in southern and coastal plains or hilly.Tahe some major rivers, in the river, angermanalven.Many lakes, about 92,000.Lake Vanern the largest area of 5,585 square kilometers, ranking third in Europe.About 15% of the land in the Arctic Circle, but the impact of the Atlantic warm, not too cold in winter, most of the temperate coniferous forest climate, the most southern climate is temperate broad-leaved forest.Time difference: - Late than seven hours (annually by the end of March to the end of October when the summer implementation of the Nordic system, and shorten the gap - one hour).Population: 906 million (April 2006).90 percent for the Swedes (Germanic ethnic descent), foreign immigrants and their descendants over 1 million (of which 52.6 per cent for foreign nationals).The northern part of the Saami are the only minority, about 10,000 people.The official language is Swedish.90% of the national Christian Lude Zong.Capital: Stockholm (Stockholm), the urban population of 771,000 (December 2005).Administrative Division: the country is divided into five provinces and one autonomous region: Province of Southern Finland, the Province of Eastern Finland, the Province of Western Finland, Oulu Province, and Latin America completed the Aland Islands autonomous regions and provinces.Sweden's second largest city Gothenburg and the ancient city of Uppsala cultureSe Geer downtown Stockholm street in a "non-violence," bronze sculptureA brief history: the year 1100 began to take shape around the country.1157 annexation of Finland.In 1397 with Denmark, Norway formed the Kalmar Union, by Dan rule.1523 independence from the Union.The same year,古斯塔夫瓦萨was named a King.1654-1719 period for the prosperity of Sweden, are territories, including Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia, Poland and Germany's Baltic Sea coast.1718 to Russia, Denmark and Poland after the failure of operations gradually fading.Napoleon in 1805 to participate in the war, in 1809 after Russia was forced to cede Baiyu Finland, Denmark in 1814 from Norway, Switzerland and Norway and the Norwegian form a coalition.1905 Norway independence from the Union.Sweden in the two world wars in both Shou-neutral.Swedish navy female soldiersPolitics: the current constitution by the Government Code (enacted in 1809, 1974 Amendment), the throne inheritance laws (enacted in 1810, 1979 amendments) and the Freedom of Information Act (enacted in 1949) composed of three Basic Law, in addition to the Organic Law Council (Enacted in 1866, 1974 revision).Sweden implementation of the Constitution provides a constitutional monarchy.King is the head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces, as a state representative or symbolic only perform ceremonial duties, can not interfere with the parliament and government work.Parliament is the only state legislative body, elected by universal suffrage.State Government is the highest executive body, accountable to parliament.King's oldest child is legal heir to the throne., A unicameral parliament.Economy: Sweden implementation of the private business sector and developed a better system of state-owned public service combination of the "mixed economy", with high wages, high taxes, high welfare known.Forest, iron ore and water are the three major natural resources of Sweden, on the basis of the formation and development of mining and metallurgy, forestry paper, electricity and machinery manufacturing four traditional industrial system.As a wealth of timber, iron ore, hydro resources of the country, Sweden focus on the development of export-oriented industrialized economies.Industry in the national economy a very important position, 82 percent of industrial products exported to foreign countries.The mid-1970s, the Swedish industrial structure has changed significantly.Sweden increased the intensity of research and development and investment, the rapid development of high-tech industries, transportation, communication, medicine and health, information, environmental protection areas in the world, with strong competitiveness, as Sweden was the major export sectors of steel, wood processing has been Gradually machinery manufacturing, electronics and precision instruments, such as cars replaced by the industrial sector.Shipbuilding, textile and other industries increasingly fading, the Government has provided a great deal of funds for subsidies, restructuring or nationalized.Metal processing and machine manufacturing industry is Sweden's most important industrial sector.Sweden's mechanical products with precision, durability and a high level of the characteristics ofPeople in Stockholm on a Christmas shopping market.This Christmas market has several hundred years of history, still maintained a medieval style.A year before the advent of Christmas, not only to the local residents to come, there are many tourists from Muming a taste of this ancient market in Seattle..Ball bearings, refrigeration equipment, and other traditional products in the international market have enjoyed a high reputation.Iron and steel industry is a long history of one of the industrial sector.Sweden, the chemical industry is one of the major industrial sectors.In the chemical industry internal, particularly in the petrochemical, oil refining the most prominent, plastic, chemical fiber, medicines and fertilizers also have greater development.The rapid development of the auto industry after the war, in addition to production cars, but also the production of trucks.One-third of the output of cars to the United States.Energy industry in Sweden live in the economy very important position.Swedish industrial development, most energy-intensive enterprises, coupled with the long winter and the line is very long, is a high energy consumption, only the power of the average annual consumption per person of about 13,000.Sweden's agriculture and service industry is relatively developed.Swedish economy mainly relies on foreign trade, and that open markets and free trade.Sweden main export products: motor vehicles and transport equipment, machinery and equipment, electronic products, wood pulp paper, pharmaceutical, chemical and steel and metal products.Sweden imports more than 60 percent of manufacturing of parts and raw materials, are: electronic products, machinery and equipment, vehicles and transport equipment, food, textiles and footwear, and so on.Ericsson, founded in 1876 in Stockholm, Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson) is Sweden's largest one in electronics, telecommunications and other business companies, is the world's leading manufacturers of telecommunications, fixed and mobile communication networks, mobile telephone and information Communication systems, such as the technical aspects of the international telecommunications industry in a leading position.Ericsson's system business, including: communication network systems, professional telecommunications services, technology licensing, enterprise systems and mobile terminals (with Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications 50% of the shares).As of July 1999, with about more than 100,000 workers, distribution of the world more than 140 countries and regions.Ericsson with China in the field of electronic communications and a long-term friendly cooperation.Its business in China focused on three areas: public network of program-controlled switches, mobile phone systems and office exchange system.1985, Ericsson in Beijing opened its first office.April 1994, Ericsson (China) Co., Ltd. was established, its full ownership of the Swedish company Ericsson, Ericsson is the coordinator of the China headquarters in Beijing.At the end of 2000, Ericsson companies in China already has more than 4,000 employees, 24 offices and 10 joint ventures.Volvo Group (AB volvo, also translated "Regal Group"), founded in 1927 is the world's largest trucks, buses and construction equipment production, one of the marine and industrial energy systems and aircraft engine components leads Status.The group was Northern Europe's largest companies, is also the world one of 60 large companies.Its operations, including Volvo trucks, Maike Ka cars, Renault Trucks, Volvo Buses, Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo engine, aerospace and Volvo, Volvo financial services.In addition, there are a number of commercial organizations in engineering, research and development, IT, parts and components and provide logistics and other fields within the framework of the support group.Group based in Gothenburg in the world, 25 countries have production bases, products are sold to over 130 markets.About 76,000 people were employees.Volvo Group's net sales in 2003 amounted to 19.151 billion euros.Group's subsidiaries are: Volvo Car Corporation (volvo cars), Volvo Truck Corporation (volvo truck corp.), Volvo Bus Corporation (volvo bus croup), Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Engine Manufacturing Company (volvo penta), Volvo aircraft (NASA) Engine Manufacturing Company.Reindeer sledCulture: consistent implementation of nine-year compulsory free education system.Universities are well-known Stockholm University, the University of Uppsala, Lund University, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm School of Business, and so on.Sweden's culture of high quality, hospitality, simple honesty, style of conversation civilized, and acts of the rules, the ex-Connaught, Sweden attaches great importance to environmental protection, flower,爱鸟and other wildlife, love of nature.Employees each year to enjoy five weeks of paid statutory holidays, five-day working week, the annual total hours of work 1,5000.People like to use leisure time activities in the field, hiking to the forests and fields, picking wild fruit and mushrooms, into the sea to the lake swimming, boating, fishing in the day short summer night, we have to travel at home and abroad.Sweden has become the world's largest number of tourism on one of the countries.Is the sports-loving Swedes.According to the University of Gothenburg, Sweden on June 24, 2002 released a survey shows that the Internet in Sweden over the traditional newspaper, become a more welcome by the people of the media.According to sample surveys, the average Swede browse the Internet every day and night time of 23 minutes, and the Swedes used to read the Journal of time is 21 minutes, the time for reading Evening News only eight minutes, listening to the radio and watching TV time up to two hours and 45 minutes.Survey shows that women prefer listening to the radio and reading; men are more inclined to watch for television news, watching videos and reading Evening News.Of highly educated people more willing to Internet, reading and reading professional journals and the low level of education of people willing to watch TV, listening to the radio and read the Evening News.In Sweden feelings of social harmonySwedish News Agency (Tidningarnas Telegrambyra - TT) is Sweden's largest news agency, founded in 1921.It is all Swedish newspapers and radio stations cooperation of all the shares in a company whose mission is to Sweden more than 140 newspapers and radio and television stations to provide domestic and international news.Head Office based in Stockholm, Malmo, Gothenburg, Sundsvall, Jonkoping Lulea and the city has five branch.Swiss news agency with domestic and international, photography, sports, the Parliament, the editorial department of economic and labour market.Total employees clubs have nearly 180 people, including journalists, about 150 people in other parts of the work of the reporters a total of about 400 people.Riverstone's domestic news about 2 / 3, is part of international news Zhuwaijizhe provided by the clubs, most of it is broadcast Reuters, AFP and DPA news agency such as the news about receiving daily These Agencies 120,000 words of news.The ISS, including the Xinhua News Agency has more than 20 cooperative relations.Riverstone's in communications technology more advanced.1954, as the first European news agency dispatch start using fax equipment.Riverstone's also a way to broadcast telephone recording news, for as long as the fixed telephone number, can always listen to the latest clubs to the concise information.Military: Sweden existing total strength of about 65,000 people, about 20,000 civilian personnel, in wartime can mobilize 850,000 people.September 2004, the Swedish Defense Minister Biorklund said in a statement that Sweden to prevent the past from the former Soviet Union's invasion as the focus of national defense, and this threat has now ceased to exist.The focus now is to deal with international crises and to defend the territorial integrity of the country.Attractions: Former Residence of Nobel (Nobel's House) located in Karlskoga in central Sweden birch Villa, over 200 km from Stockholm.This is a milky white two-story buildings, the building before the green lawns and white birch forest surrounding the making the other more beautiful, the environment Qingyou.1894 Alpha雷德诺贝尔the end of a career overseas Piaobo settlers returned to the motherland, where he spent the last two years of life in most of the time.Since he was born in the former places of residence in Stockholm has now erected high-rise buildings, Birch Villa today became the only preserve the integrity of the Former Residence of Nobel.Since the establishment of the memorial since 1975, here has become a tourist attractions and the Nobel Prize for academic activities at the centre.The annual Nobel Symposium held here from all over the world famous scientist brings together explore new areas of scientific topics and Nobel "the benefit of mankind," the academic thinking.Nobel Memorial Hall, retains his activities in the photo, he received the various technical invention patent certificates, gold medals and wills.Nobel bedroom furnishings is very simple, only beds, tables and wardrobes, and so few of the necessary furniture, and his laboratory of the various instruments and equipment, range.Nobel October 21, 1833 Health.He invented a result of sales of glycerin detonated agents, detonators, explosives and nitroglycerin solid explosives, such as jelly, named "explosives king" reputation.December 10, 1896 died.He was 63 years old.According to his will, amounting to 9.2 million U.S. dollars part of heritage, as an incentive to benefit mankind's scientific workers to the fund.In the interest of the Fund, is divided into physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace prize five in each of Nobel's death presented a day, said Nobel Prize.Sweden is the palace of King office and the holding of the festival, Stockholm major tourist attractions.Located in downtown Stockholm.Built in the 17th century, is famous Swedish construction Gong Jurists Teliyaer works.The main entrance by two stone lions on either side of the separation of the two wearing Junmao Hongying, wearing a medieval costume-earth gunmen standing is very powerful and heavily guarded.The palace walls there are many exquisite relief, the middle is a big backyard.South-Que of the church and the state Office of the Royal Palace and the North-Que of the banquet hall has maintained the original furnishings, open to the public.Ornate hall in the palace, the walls hung a substantial history of the King and the Queen's portrait, buried magnetic dome decorated with carvings and paintings and magnificent.It is said that most of the 17th century from the hands of German artists.Some interior furnishings are also ancient chariot weapons, jewellery, ornaments, silver utensils and holding spears, general Pigua a copper helmet armored medieval knight of the solid model.Every day at noon by royal guards held a grand old tradition of the Changing of the, attract large numbers of tourists.Masters history: Alfred Bernhard Nobel (Alfred Bernhard Nobel ,1833.10.21 - 1896 .12.10), Swedish chemist, inventor of nitroglycerine explosives.Born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, his life dedicated to the study of explosives, nitroglycerin research has made significant achievements.December 10, 1896, the Nobel died in Italy.The death of the previous year, he made a will in which he: will be part of their heritage (9.2 million U.S. dollars) as the Fund, its interest is divided into physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace five kinds of bonuses, given all countries in the world in these areas to Human make a significant contribution to the scholars.June 1900 the Swedish government approved the establishment of the Nobel Foundation, and 5 the following year anniversary of Nobel's death, that is, December 10, 1901 the first award of the Nobel Prize.In 1968 the Swedish central bank in the 300 anniversary of the Construction Bank, to provide additional funds Nobel economic prize (all referred to as "the Swedish central bank of the Alfred Nobel Prize for economic sciences prize Bo Ende," also known as the "Nobel Prize of the economy Science Award "), and in 1969 began with the other five awards presented at the same time.Nobel>>>Aoluofupa Ermei (Olof Palme ,1927.1.30 - 1986 .2.28), the late Prime Minister of Sweden.January 30, 1927 was born in Stockholm.Stockholm early-Ge Dina near the school, after graduating from military service.After World War II, Kenyon College in Ohio, 1948 by the Bachelor of Arts degree from.After returning home to the University of Stockholm, 1951 was a Bachelor of Laws degree.1950 to participate in the Social Democratic Party.1953 Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Sweden.Members elected in 1958.1963 onwards in government service.1969 Chairman of the Social Democratic Party.1969, twice as prime minister in 1982.November 1976 was elected vice chairman of Socialist International.September 1980, he established the initiative "on disarmament and security issues of an independent commission" (also called "Palme Commission"), the Chair.November 1980 as the United Nations Secretary-General's special envoy mediating the Iran-Iraq war.February 28, 1986 assassination in Stockholm.Diplomacy: pursue the "peace time military alliance, the war in neighbouring regions to observe neutrality," the foreign policy.In the neighbouring regions, Europe and world affairs three levels of active participation in international cooperation.That cooperation is security, the neighbouring regions is the basis of their own safety, the EU affairs in the OSCE is playing an increasingly important role of NATO in the CSCE to recognize the leading role of services, participation of the United Nations as one of the cornerstones of Foreign Affairs.June 1994, joined NATO's "Partnership for Peace."January 1, 1995 to become official EU members.Sweden also play a role of the United Nations advocate and actively promote relaxation and disarmament.Sweden is the European Commission, the Nordic Council, the European Free Trade Association countries.Relations with China: May 9, 1950, Sweden established diplomatic relations with China.July 17, 2006 to 22, King Carl XVI on a state visit to China.Reproduced: 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