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Wen: Peace is a logical choice for China
(China Daily/Agencies)
Updated: 2005-12-07 06:06
Quipping that student exchanges are "more important than the purchase of 150
Airbus aircraft," he said that "if economic co-operation between our countries
represents the present, cultural co-operation is the future."
On Monday, Wen announced at a joint news conference with his French
counterpart Dominique de Villepin that 400 young French people would be invited
to China next year as part of efforts to boost Sino-French youth exchanges in
culture.
During a question-and-answer session, Wen said France must improve its offer
in terms of both cost and transfer of technology if it wants to win a massive
contract to build third-generation nuclear reactors in China.
"China hopes that France will offer more attractive conditions on technology
transfer as well as price so that French-Chinese co-operation in this field can
develop," he said.
The French company Areva is bidding for a US$8 billion deal to construct four
reactors in China, but is facing stiff competition from Westinghouse of the US
as well as AtomStroyExport of Russia.
Wen was due to fly south later yesterday to the city of
Marseille.
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