Canadian PM Trudeau's free trade remarks welcomed

Beijing on Wednesday welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's remarks about trade with China, saying it is ready to work together to push forward the building of a free trade area.

Trudeau told the 2018 Fortune Global Forum in Toronto that as the world's second-largest economy and growing, China will remain an important place to do business.

"Both China and Canada are important economies in the Asia-Pacific region. The two countries highly complement each other in their economies and share huge potential and immense prospects in cooperating with each other," Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in a daily news briefing.