[Wang Wentao meets with Lange, Chairman of the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament] On October 28, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao met with Lange, Chairman of the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament, on October 27 to exchange views on China-EU economic and trade relations. Wang Wentao said that China and the EU are each other's important economic and trade partners and an important force in maintaining the multilateral trading system. Since the beginning of this year, China and the EU have held two trade and investment consultation mechanism meetings and achieved fruitful consensus. This fully proves that both sides have the willingness, ability and wisdom to resolve economic and trade issues of mutual concern through dialogue. At the same time, China has noticed that the EU has recently intensively promoted the introduction of a series of economic and trade restriction tools, which has had a negative impact on the stability of China-EU production and supply chains and the cooperation between enterprises from both sides. Wang Wentao emphasized that China is not the source of the EU's problems, but a partner in solving them. It is hoped that the EU and China will meet each other halfway and achieve upward balance and forward development of China-EU trade by expanding two-way investment, increasing imports from Europe and expanding cooperation in emerging areas on the premise of complying with WTO rules and reciprocity and mutual benefit. The Ministry of Commerce of China is willing to strengthen communication with the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament to jointly promote the stable and healthy development of China-EU economic and trade relations. Lange said that China is an important economic and trade partner of the EU. Under the current turbulent world economic situation, it is of great significance to maintain the overall stability of EU-China economic and trade relations. The EU is willing to develop stable and balanced economic and trade relations with China, firmly support the multilateral trading system, promote the reform of the WTO, and jointly promote global economic development. The European side welcomes Chinese companies to invest in Europe, expand new space for cooperation, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. The International Trade Committee of the European Parliament appreciates the positive results achieved by the EU-China trade and investment consultation mechanism, supports the EU and China in continuing to promote dialogue and consultation and properly handle differences, and is willing to play an active role in this regard.