Beijing plans major talks with Berlin

BEIJING - China plans to hold unprecedented government talks with Germany, in which more than 20 ministers from both sides will take part, when Premier Wen Jiabao visits Beijing's largest trading partner in the eurozone later this month.

The number of officials present will make the event far larger than China's strategic and economic dialogues with the US have been.

Besides strengthening important business ties, experts said the talks will help to dispel the German media's misunderstand of Beijing, which perhaps became most evident during the torch-relay ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008.