Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said on Tuesday that the European Union's decision to launch an investigation into Chinese telecommunication equipment manufacturers would damage the interests of both China and the EU.

"Such a one-sided move only serves to make the dispute more difficult to solve," he said.

The European Commission said on May 15 it would launch an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into mobile telecommunication equipment imported from China, targeting the nation's top manufacturers ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.