Liu Jianchao Trade Quotations

China has normal, conventional military trade with other countries which abides by China's policies and law and agreements China has signed.

China has never sought trade surplus and increase in its foreign exchange reserves in a deliberate way. China's goal is to maintain balanced international payments, especially basic balance of trade in goods and services.

China and the U.S. do disagree on some trade and other issues. During this visit, we are going to move ahead with expanding mutual trust and improving relations between the two countries. The development of bilateral ties serves the interest of both peoples.

China and the United States do have differences on trade and some other issues. We are going to move ahead while expanding mutual trust and improving relations during this visit.

We hope that Japan can take an appropriate, effective and sincere attitude. I think that will also help the development of economic and trade relations between China and Japan.

We think that the two sides should respect each other and follow the principle of equality and properly handle the issue in accordance with World Trade Organization regulations.

During his visit, the two sides will exchange opinions on issues including bilateral economic and trade cooperation.

During the normal course of developing (China-EU) trade relations, there will be benefits to the two sides and also frictions. Last year, we had trade negotiations between the two sides, and successfully resolved some issues. Now we have new problems ... and this will continue to happen.