EU Trade Commissioner on EU trade offer three recommendations

22 July, EU Trade Commissioner Carel · de GOUTTES and Chinese Vice Minister Gao Hucheng rose together attended the Shanghai World Expo Belgium-European Museum held EU trade day, the two central European trade trader on the China business environment expand debates.

Faced with more than 200 participating trade day Central Government's representative, Carel · de Gucht to the Chinese Government put forward three proposals in the European Union: strengthening the EU-China trade and investment, balancing bilateral trade; take strong measures to protect intellectual property rights; protect the purchasing market's open and transparent.

Carel · de Gucht's keynote speech again WINS China's independent innovation policy. "In particular, cannot be used as a pretext for independent innovation in key sectors, in particular information, green industry barriers to EU enterprises excluded. "Carel · de Gucht stressed in his speech," China should ensure that their procurement markets open, transparent, any detrimental to competition rules will impede economic growth. ”

Since 2009 the Chinese Government against Coca-Cola acquired China's largest pure juices Huiyuan Juice company, about the Chinese business environment deterioration of freedom of speech is rising. On weekends, and during the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, Germany Siemens and BASF's Chief Executive Officer thus China business and investment environment criticized.

On that day, China the EU Chamber of Commerce Vice President, Peter also with a thickness of up to 500 pages of the European Union Chamber of Commerce "2010 business confidence survey report" came to Belgium-European Museum.

Home in on 514 operating in China of the questionnaire by EU companies, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, including 39% of enterprises in China are dissatisfied with the implementation of the law, 33% of enterprises on the lengthy accusations of business registration procedures, 29% of spearhead the intellectual property protection, and 26% of enterprises that in the implementation of China national standard, the local government exists to protect local enterprises.

"Because of the prevailing local protectionism, EU enterprises in the development of small and medium-sized cities in China, was better than in big cities more serious prejudice and discrimination. "Young Peter said.

According to the EU Chamber of Commerce 2010 business confidence survey, EU enterprises in China since the profitability of 2008 year-on-year decline. In all the surveyed companies, 75% of the market expansion as more important measure of profitability, in order to achieve this goal, their common aspiration is a level playing field. But on China policy environment of uncertainty is the most common concerns of EU enterprises.

For this reason, the Chinese Vice Minister Gao Hucheng in challenge to the EU made a response.

He stressed that the EU industrial structure and China, to high-tech and high-end products, and therefore with China's economic development, China's market demand for these products will increasingly enhance. Second, China 12%, "planning" for energy-saving emission reduction requirements will be the EU's high-tech, low-carbon products trade provides a huge potential market.

In the first half of 2010, the EU trade volume has more than 2100 billion, an increase of 37%. Bilateral trade size basic recovery to the financial crisis levels. In that speech, Gao Hucheng once again promised that China is willing to maintain open trading environment, efforts to promote the development of Sino-EU trade.