Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 13 (Reporter Feng Xinran) Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun introduced the situation of the 11th China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue held in Beijing on the 11th at a regular press conference on the 13th. He said that China and the UK have achieved 69 mutually beneficial and win-win results.
Guo Jiakun said that in the 11th China-UK economic and financial dialogue, the two sides expressed their common willingness to uphold multilateralism and economic globalization, and were committed to maintaining the multilateral trading system with the WTO as the core and rules-based, and building an open world economy. The two sides believed that China-UK cooperation is conducive to the development of the two countries, and will jointly maintain the security, stability and smoothness of the global production and supply chain, oppose "decoupling and breaking chains", and agreed to reduce two-way investment obstacles and promote a non-discriminatory and open business environment; the two sides reached many consensuses on industrial, agricultural and energy cooperation, and agreed to convene a new China-UK economic and trade joint committee, science and technology joint committee, and industrial cooperation dialogue as soon as possible, deepen the Sino-UK modern industrial cooperation partnership, and strengthen cooperation in responding to climate change; the two sides emphasized that finance, as the highlight of Sino-UK cooperation, is willing to strengthen financial policy and financial regulatory cooperation, and achieve many pragmatic results on the two-way opening and interconnection of the financial market.
"The results of this dialogue not only reflect the breadth and depth of China-UK economic and financial cooperation, but also conform to the general trend of economic globalization and multilateral development, and are beneficial to the two countries and the world." Guo Jiakun said that China is willing to use the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries as a guide, implement the results of this dialogue, promote more progress in pragmatic cooperation between the two sides, inject new impetus into China-UK relations, and add new highlights to world economic growth.
