Entrepreneurs from China and France have signed 15 cooperation agreements in various fields after the successful conclusion of a high-level bilateral business meeting on Monday, said a spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce at a press briefing in Beijing on Thursday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, together with French President Emmanuel Macron, attended and addressed the closing ceremony of the sixth meeting of China-France Business Council at the Marigny Theater in Paris on Monday.
"The sixth meeting of the China-France Business Council was successfully held. More than 200 entrepreneurs from both countries attended the meeting and held discussions around topics such as industrial innovation and mutual trust for win-win results, green economy and low-carbon transformation, new quality productive forces and sustainable development. After the closing ceremony, companies from both sides signed 15 cooperation agreements in fields such as finance, nuclear energy, aviation, manufacturing, and new energy. In the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will work with relevant French departments so as to push the bilateral economic and trade cooperation to a new level," said He Yadong, the spokesman.
The spokesman said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France 60 years ago, the trade volume between the two countries has increased nearly 800 times.
In 2023, the trade volume between China and France reached 78.9 billion U.S. dollars. China has become France's largest trading partner outside the European Union (EU), and France is a major EU trading partner of China, according to He.
The cumulative amount of two-way investment has exceeded 26 billion U.S. dollars, ranking at the forefront of cooperation between China and EU countries, and over 2,000 French companies are now operating in China, He said.
China, France sign 15 deals to expand economic cooperation
