English.news.cn 2011-05-17
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy delivers a speech at the Party School of the Communist Party of China Central Committee in Beijing, capital of China, May 17, 2011. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi) |
BEIJING, May 17 (Xinhua) -- China and the European Union should work together as they adapt to the changing and increasingly globalized world, President of the European Council (EC) Herman Van Rompuy said Tuesday.
"In this globalized world, the EU and China are both key players. In my view we should be partners in adapting to the changing world," Van Rompuy said while addressing the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Beijing.
Van Rompuy started his five-day visit to China on Sunday, which is his first official visit to the country since he became EC president on Jan. 1, 2010.
"Since I took office, I have placed the EU-China relation in the center of an important internal debate focusing on the strategic partners of the European Union," Van Rompuy said.
The EU leaders have shown "a strong desire to develop a reliable, constructive and forward-looking strategic partnership with China, fully aware of our convergences and divergences," Van Rompuy said. "My visit is an expression of that wish."
The 27-member bloc is now China's largest trading partner while China is the EU's second-largest trading partner.
Bilateral trade between the EU and China reached 480 billion U.S. dollars in 2010. It hit 123.7 billion dollars in this year's first three months, up 22 percent from last year, Chinese Ambassador to the EU Song Zhe said in a recent interview with the People's Daily.
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