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Merkel visit: Trade issues top China talks agenda | |
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks with China's leaders on the second day of her three-day visit. | |
The visit is Mrs Merkel's seventh to China since taking office in 2005. Trade issues are expected to run high on the agenda. | |
Mrs Merkel is due to meet Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and will attend a meeting of the China-Germany Economic and Trade Commission. | |
She will then meet Chinese President Xi Jinping later on Monday evening. | |
On Sunday, Mrs Merkel visited Chengdu, the capital of China's south-western Sichuan province where more than 150 German companies are active. | |
China is Germany's second-largest export market outside Europe after the US. | |
It sold goods worth 67bn euros (£53bn; $91bn) to China last year, while imports from China topped 73bn euros. | It sold goods worth 67bn euros (£53bn; $91bn) to China last year, while imports from China topped 73bn euros. |
Mrs Merkel's visit to China as chancellor may signal the growing importance of Chinese-German relations but there are problems, reports the BBC's Martin Patience from Beijing. | |
German companies have complained that Chinese businesses are ripping off their technology while other companies have said that they are not being paid on time. | |
It is also unclear if Mrs Merkel will address human rights abuses when she meets Chinese leaders this time, our correspondent adds. |