On March 2, 2018, China Mobile inaugurated its new offices near Paris. It is the third Chinese phone company to enter the French market after China Telecom and China Unicom.
China Mobile coming to France
BRI session at MEDports forum 2018
The 2nd MEDports forum was held in Marseille on February 7-8, 2017.
The MEDports forum aims at boosting cooperation among ports located on the North and Southern coasts of the Mediterranean sea. A MEDports association was inaugurated at the conclusion of the forum.
During this event a special session was dedicated to the Belt and Road Initiative.
French president’s visit to China (II)
Priority to Africa After a visit to Xian, President Macron went to Beijing on January 9, 2018. He discussed with president Xi Jinping about environmental issues. The two states may increase their cooperation in Africa. One of the main outputs
French president’s visit to China (I)
President Emmanuel Macron began his three-day visit to China in Xian, the ancient capital of the Silk Road, before going to Beijing. The French president showed his commitment to the new Silk Roads; he said in an interview with the
China Construction 4.0 Forum, Changsha, Nov.28-29, 2017
On November 28- 29, 2017, China Construction 4.0 forum was held in Changsha, Hunan, as part of the”Prefabricated Building and Construction Technology Expo”. Sébastien Goulard, manager and consultant of Cooperans and coordinator of the OBOReurope platform, spoke at the”Belt and
Decathlon and the new Silk Roads
On 17 November 2017, Dourges rail station in northern France welcomed the first freight train containing only Decathlon brand products imported from China. This train, which left Wuhan on October 28 in Hubei Province, took less than 20 days to
FCPAE Europe Forum: Belt and Road session
On September 25-26, 2017, the 9th FCPAE Europe Forum organized by the AFCDUD (Association Franco-Chinoise du Développement Urbain Durable, French-Chinese Association for Sustainable Urban Development) was held in Issy-Les Moulineaux near Paris. The main theme of this event was “Smart City
Macron, Europe and the BRI
In his first speech to the Ambassadors on August 29, 2017, President Emmanuel Macron mentioned China’s Belt and Road initiative, which he described as a major geopolitical project. He called for the deepening of the Franco-Chinese partnership and called on
One Belt, One Road…No Cheese
Since September 2017, several European cheeses such as Camembert and Brie have been blocked at Chinese borders by sanitary authorities. Authorities have revised their criteria and no longer allow the importation of certain types of cheese such as soft cheese,
Visit of French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to China
French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, accompanied by Marisol Touraine, Minister of Health, Jean-Marie Le Guen, Secretary of State for “La Francophonie” and Mathias Fekl, Secretary of State for foreign trade, paid a three-day official visit to China ( 21-23 February