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The EU’s relationship with China was established in 1975 and is governed by the 1985 EU-China Trade and Cooperation Agreement. To reflect the growing depth of their relations, the EU and China launched a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2003, which was upgraded in 2010 to include foreign affairs, security matters and global challenges such as climate change and global economy governance.

The EU is China’s biggest trading partner, while China is the EU’s largest source of imports and second largest two-way trading partner.  This is proof that the EU and Chinese economies are complementary, and is a good reason why the EU and China are attractive partners for each other. The trade and investment relationship has become a major source of wealth, jobs, development and innovation for both sides.

Since the 14th EU-China summit in February 2012, when the High Level People-to-People Dialogue was launched, the EU-China institutional architecture has been based on three pillars: political, economic and trade, as well as people-to-people contacts. There are annual summits along with regular high level dialogues, as well as over 50 sectoral dialogues pdf - 18 KB [18 KB]   covering a broad list of topics such as industrial policy, education, customs, social affairs, nuclear energy and consumer protection.

Human rights are discussed as part of the regular political dialogues, as well as during the specific human rights dialogues that have been held since 1995.

The EU is strongly committed to further developing a comprehensive strategic partnership with China.

 

Vice-President Keqiang with European Council President Van Rompuy  

  Vice-Premier of the People's Republic of China Li Keqiang in Brussels 
  3 May 2012

 

 

 

Herman Van Rompuy and Wen Jiabao  14th EU-China Summit 
  Beijing, 14 February 2014

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