(Xinhua/Ding Lin)
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng stressed on Friday that China and Canada should join hands to promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations.
He, also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the statement while attending a China-Canada trade and investment banquet in Beijing with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
He noted that, under the strategic guidance of the important consensus between the leaders of the two countries, China and Canada should uphold mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, while promoting each other’s development and success, so as to jointly promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations.
China is determined to expand high-level opening-up and continue to foster the emergence of new-quality productive forces, He said, adding that China is ready to work with all countries, including Canada, to open up new prospects for cooperation.
Noting that China is Canada’s second-largest trading partner, Carney expressed his willingness to strengthen high-level exchanges with China, take advantage of dialogue mechanisms on economic and trade cooperation and other areas, and advance cooperation in trade, agriculture and energy, among others.
