Li Qiang Meets with US Secretary of Commerce Raymond
On the afternoon of August 29th, Premier Li Qiang met with US Secretary of Commerce Raymond at the Great Hall of the People.
Li Qiang stated that a healthy and stable relationship between China and the United States is beneficial to both the two countries and the world.Recently, the US has repeatedly expressed its commitment to returning to the agenda set by the Bali meeting between the two heads of state, and China welcomes this. Mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation are the correct way for China and the United States to coexist. I hope that the United States and China can work together to take more practical and beneficial actions to maintain and develop the relationship between China and the United States.
Li Qiang pointed out that the essence of China US economic and trade relations is mutual benefit and win-win. Politicizing and securitizing economic and trade issues not only seriously affects bilateral relations and mutual trust, but also harms the interests of businesses and people in both countries, which will have a catastrophic impact on the global economy. China is the largest developing country, while the United States is the largest developed country. Both sides should strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation, reduce friction and confrontation, jointly promote world economic recovery, and address global challenges. China is willing to strengthen dialogue and cooperation in the field of economic and trade with the United States, promote the healthy development of bilateral economic and trade relations, and hopes that the United States will move towards China. China actively promotes high-level opening up to the outside world, strives to create a market-oriented, legal, and internationalized first-class business environment, further relaxes market access, implements national treatment for foreign-funded enterprises, maintains and promotes fair competition, and the door to opening up to the outside world will only become wider and wider.
Raymond said that the Biden administration supports China's economic development and improvement of people's livelihoods, has no intention of curbing China's development, does not seek to decouple from China, is willing to maintain communication with China, maintain normal economic and trade relations between the United States and China, and promote stable development of bilateral relations. The US is also willing to strengthen cooperation with China in areas such as artificial intelligence, climate change, and combating fentanyl.