Visit to push China-Germany economic, trade cooperation

BERLIN - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Germany will push forward bilateral economic and trade cooperation, said commercial counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Germany.

"Economic and trade cooperation has always been the ballast of China-Germany relations. Premier Li's visit to Germany has made fruitful achievements in the economic and trade fields and will push forward Sino-German economic and trade cooperation," Wang Weidong told Xinhua in a recent interview during Li's two-day fruitful official visit to Germany.

Li's visit came as globalization is threatened by rising trade protectionism, Wang said, stressing that both China and Germany have made it clear that they would jointly promote trade liberalization and investment facilitation, support an early conclusion of the EU-China investment agreement and improve China-EU free trade cooperation.