Growing foreign cooperation attests China's commitment to opening-up

BEIJING - Despite a still anemic world economy charged with rising isolationist sentiment, China's cooperation with other countries keeps growing, with recently released data showing that it became Germany's largest trading partner in 2016.

The increase of China-Germany trade, observers say, serves as yet another signal indicative of Beijing's stead-fast commitment to its decades-old opening-up policy, which has benefited both China and the world at large.

Official statistics showed that the China-Germany trade amounted to 170 billion euros ($180 billion) in 2016, which meant China overtook the United States as Germany's top trading partner.