Greek destinations last month “reached” thousands of Chinese viewers through two episodes of “Slow Life: Feel the World” featuring Chinese megastar Dilraba (or Dilireba) Dilmurat, who has over 63 million followers on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.

President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping noted that cooperation between Greece and China was a "cooperation of two great civilisations" and not just cooperation between two countries, in statements during his meeting on Monday morning with the President of Hellenic Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos at the presidential mansion in Athens.

"In Athens, as in Shanghai, we find that our relations are warmer than ever. Confidence is a given," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday, during joint statements with the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping in Athens.