不定项选择题 As the 24th China-EU Summit is set to take place in B
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不定项选择题 As the 24th China-EU Summit is set to take place in Beijing on Thursday, scholars and officials have expressed hopes that the world’s two major economies could take the opportunity to
step up their pace in resuming and expanding collaboration in the post-pandemic era and better address global challenges together.
Rejecting impulses for economic decoupling and curbing attempts that fuel antagonism should be high on the bilateral agenda to ensure that the Eurasian region does not move toward Cold War-style confrontation, they added.
Thursday’s summit will be the first face-to-face one held since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous summit took place via video link in April last year.
President Xi Jinping will meet with President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. Premier Li Qiang and the two European Union leaders will jointly chair the summit.
Beijing said earlier this week that the summit will touch upon “strategic issues critical to the direction of China-EU ties and global issues of mutual interest”.
“Be it solving the outstanding problems facing Europe or effectively responding to global challenges, China is a trustworthy and indispensable partner of the EU,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday.
He noted that “tackling differences properly through dialogue and consultation is an important lesson learned in the development of China-EU relations”. He called on the EU to work together with China to “create a good atmosphere” for the success of the summit.
In an earlier statement on its website, the EU said the summit “will be an opportunity to engage with China at the highest level and to pursue constructive and stable EU-China relations”.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the China-EU comprehensive strategic partnership. From 2002 to 2022, annual total trade between China and the EU expanded from $86.8 billion to $847.3 billion, and the EU’s exports to China have supported about 4 million jobs in Europe, according to the Foreign Ministry
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