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On the afternoon of July 6, 2021, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council held a video dialogue meeting with representatives of the British business community in Ziguangge, Zhongnanhai, focusing on China-UK relations and practical cooperation, the new crown pneumonia epidemic, addressing climate change, optimizing the business environment, and deepening service trade cooperation , Promote dialogue and exchanges on topics such as cultural exchanges. Standard Life, Diageo, Jardine, AstraZeneca, Wobo United, BP, Rio Tinto, Jaguar Land Rover, Clifford Chance, Schroder, University College London, UK 48 group clubs and more than 30 multinational companies The heads of the company and well-known institutions attended.

　　 Li Keqiang said that there are still many uncertain and unstable factors in the current international situation. As permanent members of the UN Security Council and major economies in the world, China and the UK are important forces for maintaining world peace, promoting common development, and defending the multilateral trading system. A stable China-UK relationship helps maintain free and fair trade, promote world economic recovery, respond to global challenges, and enhance the well-being of both peoples. We are willing to work with the UK to consolidate mutual trust, respect each other, seek common ground while reserving differences, deepen mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation, build consensus through equal dialogue, resolve differences, and promote the healthy and stable development of China-UK relations.

　　 Li Keqiang pointed out that mankind is a community with a shared future. Only by strengthening solidarity and cooperation can the international community finally overcome the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Both China and Britain were the first countries to invest in vaccine research and development and production. China adheres to the attributes of vaccines as a global public product, has carried out vaccine-related cooperation with many countries, and is willing to continue to strengthen exchanges with all parties, especially to share scientific research results in mutated viruses, and provide acceleration for the global fight against the epidemic.

　　 Li Keqiang emphasized that China attaches great importance to addressing climate change. President Xi Jinping announced that China will strive to achieve carbon peaks by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. This is the only way for our modernization process. As the world's largest developing country, China has an arduous task to achieve modernization and enable the Chinese people to live a happy life in the middle of this century. The task is very arduous, and we will make arduous efforts to this end. It is hoped that the two sides will further strengthen cooperation in clean energy and other fields, expand green technology cooperation on the basis of protecting intellectual property rights, and jointly tackle climate change.

　　 Li Keqiang said that reform and opening up is China's basic national policy and will continue to advance unswervingly. China's manufacturing industry has been fully opened up, and the service industry is opening up in an orderly manner, and the door to opening up will become wider and wider. In the process of building a new development pattern, we will continue to work to create a market-oriented, legalized, and international business environment, treat all types of market players, including foreign companies, equally, and welcome more foreign capital to enter China. It is also hoped that the British side will provide a fair, just and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies to invest in the UK.

　　 Li Keqiang said that both China and Britain have a long history and splendid culture, and the exchanges between the people of the two countries have a long history. It is hoped that both sides will continue to uphold the concepts of mutual respect, openness and tolerance, and inclusiveness, and jointly safeguard the diversity of human civilizations and promote the development of a colorful world civilization. Li Ke urged all sectors of the society of the two countries to strengthen exchanges and communication, increase awareness and understanding between the people, and accumulate positive factors for the development of relations between the two countries.

The British participants at the meeting were satisfied with the vigorous development of the economic and trade relations between the two countries. They said that China is an important economic and trade partner of the United Kingdom. There is huge room for win-win cooperation in the fields of industry and infrastructure. The British business community looks forward to further strengthening trade and investment relations with China, deepening cooperation in pragmatic areas, and promoting the development of overall relations between the UK and China.

　　 The theme of this dialogue is "enhancing mutual trust, expanding cooperation, and seeking common development". It is co-sponsored by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the China-Britain Business Council. The Chairman of the China-Britain Business Council Lord Zhan Chengxin and the Chairman Sir Gu Peiqin delivered speeches and hosted the ceremony respectively.

　　 Wang Yi and He Lifeng attended the above activities.