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Hamburg – China Any Hamburg merchant doing business with China today is part of a tradition, of a trade relation going back for centuries. Hamburg with its mercantile Hanse League origins was an independent seafaring city state until 1871. Small as it was as a state, such was the importance of its China trade that around 1860 it operated 5 Hamburg consulates in the Chinese Empire. Later on, Hamburg being incorporated into Germany and being Germany’s major port, Hamburg trading companies and shipping lines played a very visible role in China, be it during the last days of the Chinese empire or in the times of the Republic. Between the world wars Hamburg housed the biggest chinese colony in Europe. Even in the 1960’s and 1970’s, during China severest isolation from the western world, Hamburg companies like the Rickmers line showed their flag in China. 1986 Hamburg and Shanghai formed a city-partnership tallship Rickmer Rickmers calling a chinese port around 1900

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