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Norwegian folk customs

1, the Norwegians very much like to shake hands. Whenever strangers meet, they always shake hands and say their names to each other. Similarly, when you meet someone you don't know very well, you have to shake hands when you say hello and goodbye.

2. Every January, Norway hosts the Tromso International Film Festival (TIFF) in the northern port city of Tromso. Founded in 1991, the festival is a meeting point for the Norwegian and international film industry, and it aims to showcase outstanding films for audiences in the polar regions, throughout Norway and around the world, with features such as an outdoor cinema.

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Norway is one of the most developed welfare states in the world. GDP per capita reached $81,085 (2010 data), and in 2011 it ranked third in the world in terms of global GDP per capita, after Qatar and Luxembourg.In 2013, GDP per capita passed $100,000 USD. Norway is a highly developed industrial country and is one of the top ten economies in Europe.

GDP per capita is the highest in Northern Europe. Norway's oil and gas production has surpassed that of the United Kingdom since the 1990s, making it an emerging oil and gas producer. North Sea oil fields produce oil, gas, in addition to meet the country's own consumption, but also a large number of exports. In the North Sea oil fields in the concentration of the sea, the new construction of many new pipelines, oil terminals and oil ports. Deep-sea oil extraction technology is well developed.

Norway is a developed country with modernized industry. 1970s economic development was relatively fast, the 80s had ups and downs, in the early 90s due to the abolition of the oil production limit, the sharp increase in revenue, foreign trade surplus increased dramatically. 1990 set up a petroleum fund, 2006 was renamed the "Government Pension Fund - Global" (i.e. sovereign wealth fund), which is the largest oil fund in the world. Global" (i.e. sovereign wealth fund).

Supported by huge revenues from oil and gas exports, the Norwegian economy has been in good shape in recent years, with the unemployment rate and inflation rate remaining at low levels.

After the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, the Norwegian government introduced a package of countermeasures, and the Norwegian economy did not suffer any significant impacts, and regained stability and continuous growth in a short period of time.

Since 2014, due to the impact of the decline in oil prices, investment in the Norwegian oil and gas industry has been reduced, and economic growth has slowed down. Economic growth slowed down, but the fundamentals remain good.

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