The Guardian reported on Tuesday (April 15) that UK Business Secretary Reynolds will visit China later this year to promote trade and investment between the two countries.
This news sends out a positive signal, indicating that cooperation in trade and investment between China and the UK is expected to deepen further.
China is the UK's fifth largest trading partner, and bilateral trade and investment exchanges have deep roots in the economic sphere with broad room for expansion. Since the Labour government took office in 2024, it has actively strengthened contacts with China. Reynolds' visit to China is a continuation of this positive trend. Previously, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves have successively visited China, and high-level reciprocal visits have built a good communication bridge for warming relations and pragmatic cooperation between the two countries.
From the perspective of Reynolds' visit to China, restarting the Sino-British Economic and Trade Joint Committee meeting, which was interrupted in 2018, is a key task. The restoration of this dialogue mechanism will provide an important exchange platform for both sides in coordinating trade policies, optimizing investment environments, and so on, helping to resolve existing problems and explore new cooperation opportunities, promoting freer and smoother development of bilateral trade and investment. For example, in the field of trade, both sides can discuss issues such as market access and trade barriers; in terms of investment, they can communicate on investment fields and projects of mutual concern, reduce uncertainties, and enhance enterprise investment confidence.
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