Over the past six years, Taiwan and the Chinese mainland have moved from confrontation to rapprochement, from antagonism to consultation, with this year's Zhang-Wang meetings marking a further step forward in cross-Straits cooperation."
The Hamburg Summit on Friday and Saturday takes place at a strategically important time, as Premier Li Keqiang delivers the keynote speech on the second day and relations between China and Europe are closer than ever.
Initiated by the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce in 2004, the Hamburg Summit serves as a platform for dialogue between China and Europe to enhance mutual understanding and improve economic relations.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Germany has been helping Chinese companies to tap into the German market and make their voices heard since May 2013, its chairman said.
Premier Li Keqiang gave a traditional Chinese puzzle game called Lu Ban Lock to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday at a bilateral economic and technological forum, saying he hoped the two countries can "solve difficulties with intelligence and expand their future".
The Sino-Germany Intergovernmental Consultations, the highest level of negotiations, were established in 2010. They are the only such intergovernmental consultation framework into which the Chinese government has entered with a foreign government.
"The longest distance in the world," according to one joke making the rounds, "is not between life and death, but when I hold your hand at a crossing in Beijing and I can't see your face."
Only meteorological stations would be allowed to release forecasts in China under a draft proposal released by the National Meteorological Administration.
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