The President of the East Swedish Chamber of Commerce, Christian Berger, tells SVT News Öst that there are employees from some of the region's major employers on this trip.

Hear more about the Chamber's view of the visit in the video above.

Do not want to speculate

After the EU and the US, trade with China is perhaps the most important. What the play from Lars Vikinge and Linköping Municipality will lead to is nothing that the chairman of the East Sweden Chamber of Commerce, Karin Ljungmark-Malmström, wants to speculate on.

- It's hard to say about right now. We'll see. I hope and believe that the good cooperation that our region has had between business and the public and academia, will continue in the good way, as well as with open relationships, which we have always had.