In July and August, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Commerce, Gao Feng, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce, responded to the progress of the China-EU Investment Agreement. He said: On July 5, President Xi Jinping held a video with French President Macron and German Chancellor Merkel. The summit reached a series of important consensuses, which provided strong political guidance for China and the EU to expand mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation and properly respond to global challenges, which greatly boosted the confidence of enterprises of both sides to deepen cooperation.
Gao Feng pointed out that as the world's two largest economies, China and the EU have strong economic complementarities and great potential for cooperation.
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, China and the EU have overcome difficulties and achieved trade growth against the trend, and investment has risen steadily.
The strengthening of economic and trade cooperation between China and Europe is conducive to enhancing the well-being of the people of both sides, conducive to jointly responding to global challenges, and promoting world economic recovery.
Gao Feng said that the China-EU Investment Agreement is in the common interests of both parties and is beneficial to the entire world.
Currently, both parties are carrying out technical preparations such as legal review and translation.
(Reporter Liu Xuanting)
Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]