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China, EU focus on governance and technology

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Beijing and Brussels are expected to focus their recent cooperation on building "sustainable and inclusive" global governance while promoting technology transfers to accelerate China's industrial upgrading, according to a senior European Parliament official.

China, EU focus on governance and technology

Qu Xing (second from left), president of China Institute of International Studies joined a panel discussion in Brussels on Tuesday night on how China and EU can work better together. [Fu Jing/China Daily]

Adrian Severin, a member of the delegation for relations with China in the European Parliament also said that the European Union (EU) is still working on the long-awaited draft strategy with China, which is designed to be a "one voice" guideline when Brussels deals with Beijing.

"To be precise, we need to involve China to work on new global economic governance and also promote technology transfers," said Severin at a China-EU conference on Tuesday night.

It is very likely that the two points will be written into the EU strategy with China, though there is no timetable when the long-awaited document will be debated and then made public. In October, the topic was put on the agenda of the European Council conference, but it was sidelined by other proposals.

The two EU priorities may have resulted from rounds of high-level talks between China and the EU - especially after the annual EU-China summit in October. The EU has recognized China's rising economic clout, which the two sides hope to reflect in the new global economic governance.

The major players in the world will discuss this in the upcoming G20 summit in Seoul.

Meanwhile, China's plan to transform its industrial development pattern in the coming years has offered transfer opportunity for EU, which is a supplier of high-tech and green technologies.

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