Torbjorn Loden, head of Nordic Confucius Institute, addresses the unveiling ceremony of a Confucius statue presented by the government of east China's Shandong Province to the Nordic Confucius Institute is unveiled at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 3, 2008. The two-meter high statue, with Confucius' life engraved on its base, is the first Confucius statue presented by China to Sweden. (Xinhua/Wu Ping)