Xi's Polish visit first step towards golden era with China

However, to further deepen the collaborations, he says central position is not enough and Poland needs to know the Chinese Initiative better.

"Our mutual task for now is obvious: knowing each other better.

"The Chinese side needs 'to sell it' to the Polish audience properly and we need to create our proper 'guanxi' (Chinese word means "network"), starting from a better political relationship, and going deeper to business community and the society as a whole," he adds.

For a long time Poland was mostly Western-oriented, seeking alliance and opportunities only there, Góralczyk explains.

However, he says the world is changing after 2008 global economic crisis and now the country is shifting more towards the global prospective.

"We have a new phenomenon known as emerging markets, with China as a leading representative of them, not just 'the largest developing country' anymore. Poland finally realizes it is time to be open in all directions and not only towards the West, as it was in recent decades," he says.

The Polish business community has started to realize that it is China which is the biggest player among BRICS group, or G20. As the world is interconnected and multipolar, Góralczyk says it is impossible to imagine it without China and that explains why the prospects of Sino-Polish bilateral relationship seem to be bright and better than before, adding that President Xi's visit will be another very important step in this direction.

"Poland is a smaller country, but still we are one of the bigger countries in Central Europe so we have some advantages that we would like to exploit," he says.

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