Growing partnerships abound in manufacturing, telecom,
agriculture, biotech, alternative energy and even in academia and the arts.
Earlier this year, actors and support crew took the 12-hour
flight from Beijing to Tel Aviv to make the first Chinese feature film in
Israel — a romantic comedy shot in locations including Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and
the Dead Sea.
The Tourism Ministry, which facilitated the shoot, predicts
the number of Chinese tourists will reach a record 28,000 this year. But ties
between these two Asian countries — one with a population of eight million, the
other 1.3 billion – go way beyond tourism.
Israeli-Chinese partnerships in business, academia and
culture have rapidly grown since the countries established diplomatic relations
in 1992.