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Capital Airport, etc. The two sides reached an agreement and signed documents

regarding the textiles trade.

▲Chinese President Hu Jintao met with the leader of the EU who was attending

the 8th China-EU Summit.

▲The EU-China Business Summit was held in Beijing.

September 6: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao held talks with British Prime

Minister Tony Blair in Beijing and both leaders attended the signing ceremony

for the Agreement on the Purchase of Ten Airbus A330 Airplanes by China

Southern Airlines, the China Bohai Bank Promoter Agreement, the China-UK

Government Cultural Exchange Program, the Memorandum of Understanding

between the National Museum of China and the British Museum.

September 28: China’s and Germany’s foreign affairs ministries held political

consultations. Both sides signed the Agreement for the Establishment of a

Sino-German Dialogue Forum between the Foreign Ministries of the People’s

Republic of China and the German Federal Republic.

October 31: The 1st China-EU Financial Service and Supervision Roundtable

Meeting was held in Shanghai.

November 2: China and the EU signed theChina-EU Government Procurement

Cooperation Agreement and determined to establish China-EU government

procurement dialogue mechanisms in Beijing.

November 3: The Chairman of China’s NPC Standing Committee, Wu

Bangguo, met with a delegation of the Party of European Socialists led by

President Rasmussen in Beijing.

November 5: The 20th China-EU Economic and Trade Committee met in

Brussels.

November 8: Chinese President Hu Jintao paid a State visit to the UK, Germany

and Spain.

November 9: Chinese President Hu Jintao held talks with British Prime Minister

Tony Blair in London. The two sides signed commercial contracts worth about

1.3 billion USD.

November 10: Chinese President Hu Jintao paid thefirst State visit to Germany.

The two sides signed the Sino-German Cultural Cooperation Agreement and

Sino-German cooperation documents concerning transport, health, communi-

cation, etc.

▲The EU’s Future Development International Conference was held in Beijing.

November 13: The China-EU bilateral high-level customs dialogue consultation

mechanism was officially launched.

November 15: Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Spain and held talks with

Spanish Prime Minister JoséLuis Rodriguez Zapatero. The two sides announced

the establishment of a comprehensive strategic partnership. China and Spain

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