Q: Recently, the El Salvador government has abolished the "free trade agreement" with the Taiwan authorities. What is China's consideration for deepening economic and trade cooperation between China and El Salvador?
A: Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and El Salvador, the two sides have effectively promoted the deepening of cooperation in various fields of economy and trade and achieved fruitful results in accordance with the important consensus reached by the two heads of state.
In recent years, bilateral trade has grown substantially, which fully reflects the resilience and development space of bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
On this basis, in order to further tap the potential of bilateral economic and trade cooperation and improve the level of cooperation, China and El Salvador are willing to start the process of negotiation of the bilateral free trade agreement as soon as possible, and make joint efforts to complete the process as soon as possible.