Chinese premier holds dialogue with British business leaders
The Chinese Premier Li Keqiang held a virtual dialogue with UK business leaders on Tuesday, expressing his hopes for consolidating mutual trust and deepening mutually beneficial co-operation for win-win results, to promote the stable and sound development of bilateral ties.
Noting the uncertainties in the current international situation, Li said that China and the UK, both as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and major economies in the world, represent important forces for safeguarding world peace, promoting common development, and defending the multilateral trade system.
A stable China-UK relationship is conducive to maintaining free and fair trade, promoting global economic recovery, responding to global challenges and enhancing the well-being of the two peoples,
Premier Li said.
“China is willing to consolidate mutual trust with the UK, along with mutual respect, seek to expand common ground while shelving differences, deepen mutually beneficial co-operation for win-win results, build consensus and address divergences via equal dialogue, so as to promote the healthy and stable development of bilateral ties,” said Premier Li.
Calling mankind a community with a shared future, Li said it is imperative for the international community to enhance solidarity and co-operation to ensure ultimate victory over COVID-19.
China has taken COVID-19 vaccines as a global public good and engaged in vaccine-related cooperation with multiple countries, Premier Li said.
“China is willing to continue strengthening communications with all parties, especially sharing achievements in scientific research, to accelerate the progress toward defeating the pandemic,” the premier added.
Noting that China attaches great importance to responding to climate change, Li said that China’s stated goals of peaking carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060 are the inevitable path to take in the process of modernisation.
Premier Li expressed China’s willingness to further step up cooperation on clean energy and other sectors, and expand cooperation on green technology on the basis of intellectual property protection, to jointly respond to climate change.
He said that reform and opening-up is China’s basic national policy and will continue to be advanced unswervingly. China’s manufacturing industry has been fully opened up and the service industry is opening up too.