During a video meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Li Keqiang emphasized that strengthening China-Germany-China-EU open cooperation is in the common interest of each other and can achieve mutual benefit and win-win results
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 11th: Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council held a video meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Great Hall of the People on the afternoon of June 11.
Li Keqiang said that the sudden new pneumonia epidemic has impacted on Sino-German exchanges and cooperation, but cooperation between the two sides has not and will not stop because of the epidemic and will continue to move forward. China attaches great importance to Sino-German relations. Not long ago, President Xi Jinping spoke with you on the phone. China is willing to deepen political and strategic mutual trust with Germany on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, maintain dialogue and consultation, promote cooperation in various fields such as economy and trade, investment, science and technology, and promote new progress in China-Germany relations.
Li Keqiang introduced China's epidemic prevention and control work upon request. He appreciated the positive results of the German epidemic prevention and control, and expressed his willingness to deepen the exchange of anti-epidemic experience with Germany and strengthen cooperation in vaccine and drug research and development to better benefit the people of the two countries.
Li Keqiang pointed out that to achieve economic recovery after the epidemic, China and Germany should jointly safeguard multilateralism and promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation. China is further expanding its opening up and is willing to provide a good business environment for companies including Germany. China and Germany want to expand two-way opening and make good use of the “fast track” of personnel exchanges that have been opened to facilitate the cooperation and resumption of production and production, and jointly maintain the safety and stability of the supply chain of the industrial chain.
Li Keqiang said that China has always supported the process of European integration and is happy to see the EU maintain unity and prosperity. Strengthening open cooperation between China and Germany and China and Europe is not an expedient measure, but conforms to each other's common interests and can achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. Germany will assume the rotating presidency of the EU in the second half of this year and looks forward to Germany playing a positive role in promoting the development of China-EU relations. We are willing to maintain high-level exchanges and institutional dialogue with the EU, strive to complete the negotiation of the China-EU Investment Agreement at an early date, and promote cooperation in various fields to achieve positive results.
Merkel said that Germany and China maintain close high-level communication. China has made great efforts to prevent and control the epidemic, and the two countries have carried out good cooperation in combating the epidemic. The German side welcomes China's adherence to expanding its opening up and will continue to promote cooperation between Germany and China in all fields. It appreciates China's use of vaccines as an international public product and supports the cooperation between the two countries' vaccine research and development institutions. Both Germany and China advocate strengthening multilateralism, and are willing to further communicate and coordinate in WTO affairs. Germany is willing to take the opportunity of serving as the EU’s rotating presidency in the second half of this year to jointly prepare for high-level exchanges between China and the EU, advance the existing institutional dialogue, accelerate the negotiation of the EU-China investment agreement, strengthen the EU-China-Africa trilateral cooperation, and promote Germany China-EU relations have achieved greater development.
Before the meeting, the two sides held a "cloud signing" ceremony for bilateral cooperation documents such as Sino-German SMEs management training, JAC Group and Volkswagen investment cooperation, China Power Investment Corporation and Siemens on heavy gas turbine test power plant projects.
Wang Yi and He Lifeng attended the meeting.