Following the "farewell talks" with Xi Jinping last week, the upcoming German Chancellor Merkel Merkel also held farewell talks with the Chinese State Council Li Keqiang yesterday.
According to the Voice of Germany, Merkel and Li Keqiang exchanged opinions on bilateral cooperation between Germany and China in the video conference.Other topics of the talks also include climate protection and energy cooperation, G20 summit, new crown epidemic, and some international issues.
The press release of the German government pointed out that after the talks between the two, the representatives of the German -Chinese enterprise also exchanged in the form of a virtual round table meeting.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Li Keqiang pointed out in the talks that China will, as always, attach great importance to the development of Sino -German relations, and look forward to the new German government's continued active and pragmatic policy of China and consolidate the main tone of China -German relations cooperation.Continue to make good use of bilateral dialogue communication mechanisms such as government consultations to make big and stronger cooperation.China is willing to deal with climate change and strengthen international anti -epidemic cooperation together with all parties including Germany.The door to China will open to bigger and bigger. I hope that the two parties will maintain two -way openness and jointly maintain a regular multilateral trading system based on rules and maintain the stable supply chain of the global industrial chain.Promote global economic governance and work together to cope with global challenges.
Li Keqiang welcomes Merkel to go to China after his steps down, and continue to care about supporting the development of Sino -German and China -Europe relations.
Merkel said that in the past ten years, Germany and China have maintained close exchanges, and they have continued to deepen each other, and cooperation in various fields has expanded.China's development is full of vitality, and the Germans are willing to continue to strengthen pragmatic cooperation with China and expand civil exchanges.Hede companies have obtained good and fair market access conditions in China.I believe that the new government in Germany will continue to pay attention to relations with China.It is hoped that the two parties will take the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries next year to promote further in -depth development of Germany and China ’s all -round strategic partnership.
16 years after serving as German Prime Minister, Merkel planned to step down after the establishment of the new government.The Voice of Germany reports that at present, the German Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party are conducting a cabinet negotiation, and the conservative Citizen League where Merkel is located is likely to become the opposition party.
