China and France signed commercial deals on Wednesday totaling $15.1 billion in such fields as aviation, energy, agriculture and finance to boost their cooperation, and vowed to jointly safeguard multilateralism and free trade, Eurasia Diary reports citing China Daily.
President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, witnessed the signing of the cooperation documents after their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Macron, on his second state visit to China since he took office in 2017, also attended the opening ceremony of the second China International Import Expo in Shanghai.