China will ratchet up efforts to accelerate the building of digital infrastructure and leverage innovative digital technologies to bolster industrial upgrade, as part of a broader push to foster new quality productive forces and promote deeper integration of the digital and real economies, officials and company executives said.
Officials and industry insiders in the European Union (EU) called for dialogue with China, after China's Ministry of Commerce launched an anti-dumping investigation into pork imports from the bloc.
By threatening additional tariffs and discriminating against Chinese clean tech products, Western protectionism is bringing chaos to the stability of the new energy industry critical to the world's green transition and realization of the climate goals.
Foreign institutions have raised their forecasts for China's economic growth this year amid the nation's better-than-expected first-quarter performance, strong policy stimulus and resilience in exports.
China and Switzerland on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding and agreed to officially start negotiations for the upgrade of the Sino-Swiss free trade agreement (FTA) as soon as possible, according to Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
