British Prime Minister David Cameron plans visit to China in December
British Prime Minister David Cameron plans to visit China early next month to meet the leadership in Beijing and forge business links. Cameron said he would take a delegation of ministers and business leaders on the trip, which would be his first to the country since President Xi Jinping took office in March.
British Prime Minister David Cameron plans to visit China early next month to meet the leadership in Beijing and forge business links.
Cameron said he would take a delegation of ministers and business leaders on the trip, which would be his first to the country since President Xi Jinping took office in March.
The trip is regarded as so important that the annual autumn budget update by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has been postponed by one day to December 5.
The announcement comes one month after Cameron's coalition government signed a £16 billion (HK$198 billion) deal involving China General Nuclear Power and the China National Nuclear Corporation to build Britain's first nuclear plant in a generation, along with EDF, the French energy giant.
Cameron last visited China in November 2010, six months after taking office.
"I can announce this evening that, in early December, I will be leading another delegation to China," Cameron said at the Lord Mayor of London's banquet in the capital.