Germany’s trade volume with China grew by about 2.7 percent year-on-year to reach 253 billion euros ($299.05 billion) in 2025, making China Germany’s most important trading partner last year, ahead of the US, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday, citing data released by the Federal Statistical

At a shop booth inside a range of glittering commodity shopping malls in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang Province, Zhang Qinghua is busily engaged in online chats with his overseas clients.Zhang's shop specializes in one of the traditional items of the Chinese Spring Festival holidays - firecrackers.

Figures from international data platform Dataforce show that in December 2025, Chinese automakers' sales in the European car market surged 126 percent year-on-year, with monthly sales breaking the 100,000-unit mark for the first time.

China was again Germany's most important trading partner in 2025, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported on Friday, as bilateral trade rose despite a challenging year for Europe's largest economy.

China will take multiple measures to promote the development of service consumption, the Ministry of Commerce said on a press conference on Friday.

Chinese and British financial regulators achieved "tangible cooperation deliverables" on multiple issues at the inaugural meeting of the China-UK Financial Working Group held in Beijing recently, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said on Friday.