Powerhouses draw on each other

This year is shaping up as a golden one for the China-UK relationship, says Barbara Woodward, the British ambassador to China.

"I think the relationship has developed very strongly in the past few years, particularly in 2014, when bilateral trade climbed to $80 billion, and I think we will reach $100 billion this year," said Wood-ward, who took office in February.

Woodward recently visited 10 cities in China in as many weeks and led a UK delegation of 30 companies to the China Green Companies Summit, a business forum organized by China's leading entrepreneurs, in Shenyang, Liaoning province, last month. The delegation included representatives of companies in the fields of consumer goods, financial services, healthcare, Internet security and leisure. One of those was Liverpool Football Club.