Relations between China and Britain have rarely been this intimate.
The world will benefit from the better bilateral relations and cooperation between China and Britain, Chairman of the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (ISIS) Munshi Faiz Ahmad has said.
Sun Jihai, the first Chinese player to score a goal in the English Premier League, is to be inducted Friday into Football's hall of fame at the National Football Museum in Manchester, a source from the museum told Xinhua on Monday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's positioning and expectation of China-Britain relations in a recent interview by Reuters has been encouraging, experts in Britain and Europe said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan, arrived in London on Monday evening for a state visit to Britain at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Monday to kick off his first state visit to the UK with an accompanying delegation of some 150 business leaders.
There are obvious opportunities for Europe and China to cooperate in third markets in regions where there is a development need, said a former senior British official.
With the rapidly evolving China-Britain economic relationship, doing business with China by Britain will soon be no different than doing business by the country with Germany or France, a well-known British businessman has said.
President Xi Jinping's upcoming trip to Britain will promote both China-Britain and China-Europe ties, according to a signed article to be carried in the People's Daily on Monday.
China and Britain should fully tap their potential in bilateral trade, particularly of high value-added and hi-tech products, and in service trade and infrastructure projects, Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said on Sunday.
In interviews ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the UK, Xi and British Prime Minister David Cameron said that they expect to deepen Sino-British relations and advance practical cooperation between the two countries.
Chinese President Xi Jinping conducted a written interview with Reuters on Sunday, in advance of his state visit to Britain. Following is the full text:
Over the past years, the economic relationship between China and Britain has gone from strength to strength. The momentum will continue as the world's two major countries vow to beef up cooperation in infrastructure so as to forge "golden age" of bilateral ties.
Major nuclear deals are expected to be signed during President Xi Jinping’s visit to the UK. Although the deals may only involve investment, media reports said that Chinese nuclear firms also aim to bring China’s self-developed nuclear power reactor technology to the UK. The investment deals could help establish a foundation for Chinese nuclear technology to gain further acceptance around the world, experts said.
A three-episode BBC documentary aired this summer has drawn wide attention to the educational differences between China and Britain while the heated discussion it has aroused also shows their deep-seated cultural differences.
China's Minister of Education Yuan Guiren on Friday praised the progress of education cooperation with Britain and called for more.
Since GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced a deal to produce HIV medicine with Shanghai firm Desano Pharmaceuticals in July, Britain's biggest drug maker is taking more steps to repair its scandal-hit business in China.
The new direction in Chinese foreign policy will see China "give more prominence to the European Union," Etienne Reuter, former senior adviser to the European Commission, said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua on Thursday.