On October 10-11, member of the Political Agency of the Central Committee of the CPC, Vice Premier of the State Council and chief of the Chinese side of the China-US comprehensive economic dialogue Liu He had a new round of China-US High-level Trade Consultations with the US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Under the guidance of the important consensus of the leaders of the two countries, sincere, efficient and constructive discussions on economic and trade issues of both sides’ concerns were conducted. The two parties gained substantive progress on agriculture, intellectual property, exchange rate and financial services, expanding trade cooperation, technology transfer and disputes settlement. The two parties also discussed the follow-up arrangement of consultations, and agreed to make joint efforts to achieve the final agreement.

Those who attended the consultations included the Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan, Governor of People’s Bank of China Yi Gang, Deputy Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission Ning Jizhe, Vice Minister of Finance Liao Min, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Zheng Zeguang, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Wang Zhijun, Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Jun and Vice Minister of Commerce and Deputy China International Trade Representative Wang Shouwen.

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