Ministry of Commerce

When asked whether China is pushing for a free trade agreement (FTA) with Canada as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting China, He Yongqian, a spokesperson from China's Ministry of Commerce, told a press conference on Thursday that both China and Canada support economic globalization and trade liberalization, and share broad common interests and enormous potential for cooperation in economic and trade fields.

China is expanding high-level opening-up, proactively aligning with high-standard international economic and trade rules and steadily advancing institutional opening-up, He said. 

We are ready to negotiate and conclude bilateral and regional trade and investment agreements with all countries and regions that are willing to do so, further promoting the liberalization and facilitation of global trade and investment, and taking concrete actions to uphold the hard-won system of free trade and the multilateral trading regime, said the spokesperson.


Global Times