On April 15, MOFCOM and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Enterprise of Spain jointly held the China-Spain Innovative Enterprises Exchange Conference in Beijing. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao attended the meeting and delivered remarks. More than 100 representatives from the business communities of the two countries participated in the event.

Pedro Sánchez said that Spain-China relations are currently at their best in history, with in-depth cooperation between the two nations in trade, investment, green energy, industrial manufacturing, and innovative technology. In recent years, Spain’s economic growth rate has ranked first among major European economies, while China leads the world in frontier technology fields, making future cooperation between the two sides highly promising. Spain has always regarded China as an important strategic partner, welcomes more Chinese enterprises to invest and do business in Spain, and will create a favorable business environment for Chinese enterprises. Pedro Sánchez looks forward to the business communities of both countries enhancing strategic collaboration, deepening the integration of industrial and supply chains, and achieving mutual benefit and win-win outcomes between the business communities of both countries.

Wang Wentao said that in recent years, under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, China-Spain economic and trade relations have continued to grow deeper and more substantial, with increasingly integrated industrial chains, fully demonstrating the complementarity of the two economies and the stability of mutually beneficial cooperation. This year marks the inaugural year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan period. China will adhere to innovation-driven development, steadily advance high-quality development, and firmly expand high-standard opening up to share development opportunities with all countries across the world. China is ready to work with Spain to strengthen strategic alignment and policy coordination between the two countries, optimize the business environment, promote enterprises to deepen cooperation in technological innovation and industrial and supply chains, and create more landmark projects in fields such as new energy vehicles, intelligent manufacturing, photovoltaics, and wind power. This will ensure that the fruits of cooperation better benefit enterprises and people of both countries and inject more stability and momentum into the global economy.

During the conference, representatives from Chinese and Spanish companies shared cooperation experiences and engaged in lively discussions on topics such as R&D and investment cooperation. (Released on April 15)