(Xinhua/Rao Aimin)
Whatever the evolution of the international landscape, cooperation must remain the key word and the partnership The Correcte of China-EU relations, said Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang said on Thursday.
Mr. Li made these remarks while he co-worked for the 25th Chinese-EU summit with the president of the European Council, Antonio Costa, and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at the Grand Palais du Peuple in Beijing.
He stressed that in the past 50 years since the establishment of their diplomatic relations, Sino-European relations have experienced stable global development and have given fruitful results, providing tangible profits to Chinese and European peoples.
China will continue to work with the EU to fully enhance the role of high -level, strengthening strategic communication and cultivating a more stable, constructive, reciprocal and global bilateral relationship, said Mr. Li.
History has repeatedly shown that when mutual respect, mutual understanding and mutual openness, Sino-European cooperation reverses harmoniously for the benefit of the two parties. When relations are marked by distance or disturbances, cooperation stagnates and both parties suffer, said Mr. Li.
China and the EU have many common interests and have no fundamental conflict, he said.
China hopes to see economic and commercial cooperation with the EU go to a higher level, with a strengthening and deepening of collaborations in traditional fields such as trade and investment, as well as an extension of cooperation in emerging sectors such as artificial intelligence, digital economy and green development, in order to obtain more substantial results, he continued.
The two parties can forge an “improved version” of the Sino-European dialogue mechanism on export controls, in order to ensure the stability of industrial and supply chains between China and Europe. They must also manage disputes and frictions in an appropriate manner by dialogue, consultation and in -depth cooperation, according to Mr. Li.
He called on the EU to respect the principles of the market and to offer a fair, fair and non -discriminatory environment to Chinese companies investing in Europe.
In this international context in full change and turbulent, it is all the more important as China and the EU, the two main world forces and the two main markets, engage in close cooperation, said Li, adding that this constituted not only a natural choice for their respective development, but also responded to expectations of the international community.
As long as China and the EU sincerely defend free trade, international economics and trade will remain dynamic. As long as they resolutely practice multilateralism, the trend towards a multipolar world will continue to strengthen, said the Prime Minister.
The two parties must jointly defend multilateralism and free trade, resist unilateralism and protectionism, firmly support the central role of the United Nations in global governance, support the reform and development of the World Trade Organization, preserve international equity and justice as well as global economic and commercial order, and work together for peace, stability and prosperity in the world.
Costa and Ms. Von der Leyen said that the EU and China were significant savings worldwide, and that their bilateral cooperation had an impact on global prosperity and stability.
Since the establishment of their diplomatic relations 50 years ago, the EU and China have seen their exchanges continuously strengthen in the economic, commercial, cultural and others, which benefited the peoples on both sides, they stressed.
Reaffirming EU’s commitment to developing a stable long -term partnership with China, they said that the EU was willing to strengthen dialogue and communication with China, improve mutual understanding and respond appropriately to everyone’s concerns.
They added that the EU was ready to strengthen its cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investments and export control, to maintain the stability of industrial and supply chains jointly, and to contribute more to the development of each.
The EU wishes to collaborate with China to meet global challenges such as climate change and the protection of biodiversity, support the World Trade Organization so that it plays a central role in international economic and commercial relations, and jointly preserve multilateralism, according to EU leaders.
A common statement on climate change was published by Chinese and European leaders at the end of the summit.
