Sino-US Commerce Minister talks in Beijing

BEIJING, July 15 China Commerce Minister Chen Deming 15th in Beijing with visiting U.S. Commerce secretary Gary Locke held talks, both sides said the steady development of Sino-US economic and trade relations is in line with the common interests of the two countries, should continue to actively promote bilateral economic and trade cooperation. Chen Deming said that in the context of the financial crisis, the world can only promote an early recovery of the world economy by insisting on mutual open trade and investment. He has conducted a special insurance investigation on China's export tyres recently launched by the US side, China is highly concerned about the "double counter" investigation of a number of steel products such as oil well pipes and the relevant provisions in the US fiscal appropriation bill restricting Chinese poultry meat exports, and hopes that the US government will abide by the 20 summit against trade protectionism, Careful use of the consensus of trade relief measures to deal with the relevant cases objectively and impartially. Chen Deming also stressed that China has always resisted trade protectionism, insisted on opening the market, China's economic stimulus plan to speed up infrastructure construction, promote home appliances to the countryside and other expansion of consumer policy, many foreign companies benefited from it.　　China is willing to join the WTO Agreement on Government procurement as soon as possible, open the government procurement market with the members of the agreement, and hope that members of the US side will be able to reduce the price and create conditions in a flexible and pragmatic manner. Chen said that the Chinese Government attaches great importance to tackling climate change and energy saving and emission reduction, and has set clear targets for emission reduction. China and the United States have great potential for cooperation in this area and are willing to further strengthen technology and investment trade cooperation with the US, for example, to discuss cooperation and build up some demonstration projects of energy conservation and environmental protection.　　He also pointed out that China opposes the imposition of "carbon tariffs" in international trade, a move that violates the "common but differentiated responsibility" of developed and developing countries in climate change, as defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, and will in fact become a new pretext for trade protectionism. Locke said that the U.S. government hopes to strengthen cooperation with China, and continue to develop U.S.-China relations for the benefit of the two peoples. The US, like China, opposes trade protectionism and believes that the current crisis can only be overcome by more open markets and greater cooperation. The United States attaches great importance to China's concerns and is willing to work with China to properly resolve the issues. He also said he hopes to actively promote cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy and climate change, and create more opportunities for cooperation.