A worker checks wind turbine blades for export at a dock of the Lianyungang Port, East China's Jiangsu Province, on September 5, 2025. Official data showed that China's wind turbine exports grew over 20 percent in the first half of 2025, with renewable energy generator units exports to other BRICS countries up more than 70 percent and wind turbine components rising 11.8 percent. Photo: VCG

China's green exports to the EU has soared in 2025, with the exports of wind power generators leaping by 65.9 percent year-on-year, showing great potential for bilateral cooperation, an official with China's General Administration of Customs (GAC) said on Wednesday.

At a press conference held by the State Council Information Office in Beijing on Wednesday, Lü Daliang, spokesperson with the General Administration of Customs (GAC), noted that both China and the EU actively support the transition toward low-carbon development and green growth, with green development being a distinct feature of China-EU trade.

China and the EU are each other's second-largest trading partners. In 2025, China's trade with the EU reached 5.93 trillion yuan ($849.81 billion), an increase of 6 percent year-on-year, accounting for 13 percent of China's total foreign trade and contributing 0.8 percentage points to China's trade growth, Lü said, citing Chinese customs statistics.

Data from the EU side shows that in the first ten months of 2025, EU-China trade exceeded $700 billion, accounting for 14.5 percent of the EU's total trade and contributing over 0.8 percentage points to the EU's trade growth. 

The economies of China and the EU are highly complementary, with deeply intertwined interests, Lü said.

In 2025, China's exports of wind power generators to the EU increased by 65.9 percent year-on-year, while exports of electrical equipment such as direct current charging piles and energy storage batteries grew by 25.4 percent. At the same time, China's imports of recyclable products from the EU rose by 18.9 percent. 

China's green and low-carbon transition is accelerating, creating broad opportunities for cooperation in green sectors between the two sides, Lü said.

The complementarity of strengths has evolved into intertwined interests, according to Lü. More than 50 percent of cosmetics imports and nearly 60 percent of automobiles imports in China are imported from Europe, while China's exports of pharmaceuticals and industrial robots to Europe maintained growth rates of over 20 percent in the past year.

At present, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, posing severe challenges to the rules-based multilateral trading system. Both China and the EU are constructive forces that uphold multilateralism and actively advocate openness and cooperation, Lü said. 

The two sides should move toward each other, persist in dialogue and cooperation, properly handle differences, jointly uphold free trade, practice multilateralism, and promote the sound and stable development of China-EU economic and trade relations,said Lü.

Lü made the remarks while commenting on the performance of China-EU trade, as well as the recent progress in negotiation concerning China's new-energy vehicles exports to the EU.

Global Times