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President Hu arrives in Britain on state visit
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-11-08 22:12
Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived here Tuesday on a state visit aimed at
promoting the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Britain.
President Hu Jintao and his wife Liu Yongqing
wave to the crowd, after arriving in Britain for his three-day state
visit, at Heathrow airport in London November 8, 2005. Britain and China
will seek this week to expand cooperation on cleaner technologies to
tackle global warming during a state visit to London by Hu.
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During his stay in the British capital, President Hu is expected to meet
British leaders to explore ways on how to further develop the comprehensive
strategic partnership established between the two countries last year.
In recent years, the Sino-British relations have shown good momentum of
development with exchanges of high-level visits, increases in bilateral trade
and investment, and expansion of cooperation in various fields.
Britain remains the biggest European Union investor in China and the third
largest trading partner of China within the European bloc.
In 2004, the volume of trade between the two countries reached 19.7 billion
US dollars, an increase of 37 percent over the previous year. In the first eight
months of this year, bilateral trade totaled 15.4 billion dollars, or up 27.4
percent over the same period of 2004.
Hu is scheduled to leave London for Berlin Thursday to continuehis
four-nation trip, which will also take him to Spain and South Korea.
Hu will also attend the Economic Leaders' Meeting of the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) scheduled for Nov. 18-19 in Busan, South
Korea.
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