1月17日，瑞典前首相约兰·佩尔松率领瑞典经贸代表团访问重庆。代表团的主要目的是了解重庆投资环境，为瑞典著名重型卡车制造商——斯堪尼亚公司建立全球范围内的第三个工厂选址。

“重庆发展速度快的经济特点，地处渝新欧铁路运输线起点的地理优势，还有欢迎外资企业的开放态度，是吸引我们想来重庆投资的原因。”约兰·佩尔松告诉记者，重庆是一座快速发展的城市,汽车产业基础雄厚，环境保护措施得力,显示出巨大发展潜力。相信瑞典与重庆开展相关合作是不错的选择。

斯堪尼亚公司执行副总裁亨里克松·亨里克称，斯堪尼亚汽车集团是世界制造重型卡车的领先者，同时拥有一套世界领先的高效率物流系统，此次来渝访问旨在考察重庆投资环境，希望能在重庆建立斯堪尼亚公司在世界范围内第三个生产基地。2012年至今，该集团委托的考察小组已五次来渝。

重庆市外经贸委主任徐强介绍：“重庆汽车制造业2013年产量为216万，位居全国第二。”据悉，汽车摩托车产业在重庆各行产业值中占据第一位，已有230家世界500强企业入驻重庆，其中，瑞典在渝企业有10家，主要涉及汽车零部件、通信、商品批发零售等，如知名企业宜家家居和爱立信通信等。

Former Prime Minister of Sweden Visited Chongqing

On January 17, former Prime Minister of Sweden led Swedish trade delegation to visit Chongqing. Delegation's main purpose is to understand the investment environment in Chongqing and help choosing site of the third factory worldwide of Sweden leading heavy truck manufacturer--Scania.

"Fast development and economic characteristics of Chongqing, geographical advantage of locating in the Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe railway, openness of welcoming foreign-funded enterprises are reasons attracting us. ”Goran Persson said, Chongqing is a rapidly developing city with strong and solid automobile industry base,also the environmental protection measures are effective, which is showing great development potential. He believed it would be a good choice to develop cooperation between Sweden and Chongqing.

Henrik Henriksson,Executive Vice President of Scania said, Scania Automotive Group has a world-leading manufacturer of highly effi cient logistics system,currently they are checking the investment environment in Chongqing, hoping to establish the third production base in the world. The Group has been to Chongqing fi ve times since 2012.

There are 10 Swedish enterprises in Chongqing, relate principally to the automotive, communications, wholesale and retail industries, such as IKEA and Ericsson communications.