France and China have just signed a contract of 7.5 billion francs providing for the purchase by China of 30 AIRBUS A320.27 AIRBUS aircraft already flying under Chinese flag. - Passengers boarding a Chinese AIRBUS A 320. Sleeping Chinese passengers.Itw Chinese passenger: "I really like this plane. I chose this flight on purpose". Air hostess doing the service. Itw captain: "This aircraft is very modern and easy to drive". Chinese mechanic assisted by a colleague from Toulouse for the maintenance of the Airbus. Itw Chinese mechanic: "Soon, I will be able to manage on my own". Agent providing signage on the airport runway by waving signs.
Jiang Zemin’s visit to France: the Chinese president was invited on a TGV trip to Toulouse via Bordeaux. France would like to sell its TGV to China, for the Beijing-Shanghai route. At the arrival of the demonstrators defenders of the human rights awaited the delegation which did not hinder the continuation of the visit to the nuclear power plant of Blayais Interview of Gérard LONGUET today reassured on the economic relations. The visit ended at Airbus Aerospace in Toulouse.
In Brest, the Chinese General Yang CHENG-WU, Chief of Staff General of the Chinese army, accompanied by Chinese soldiers, visited in the presence of the Amirall Philippe de GAULLE the warship Duguay-Trouin in view of signing contracts with France for supplies of conventional military equipment such as tanks and Mirages 2000 fighter aircraft.
In Beijing, the exhibition on French industry was inaugurated by Peng CHEN, mayor of Beijing in the company of Lucien PAYE, Ambassador of the French Government and responsible for the exhibition. Visit of the various stands of the exhibition presenting French technological innovations in the industry with Mayor Peng CHEN, French Ambassador Lucien FAYE, Chinese Deputy Prime Minister LI HSIEN NIEN and LIU NIENG YI, Vice-President of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.
Report devoted to the visit of President Emmanuel Macron who arrived on Monday, November 4 in Shanghai, the Chinese financial capital with the aim of boosting French exports to China in decline in the agri-food sector. Commentary on infographics and factual images of French agri-food actors present in Shanghai alongside Emmanuel Macron alternating with interviews with Gérard BERTRAND, winemaker president of the Gérard Bertrand Group and Bruno DUFAYET, President of the National Bovine Federation. [Source: prompter France 3] For his second visit, just a year and a half after the first, Emmanuel Macron intends to sign about forty contracts... in aeronautics, the military but also the food industry... a sector with real stakes and discussions that promise to be difficult... Dorothée LACHAUD and Valérie ASTRUC subject
In Longwy, since last March, a team of Chinese engineers dismantles piece by piece a disused factory since 1980 to reassemble it in WU Han in China. Chinese engineering group, interview JIANG Xian "For us it is new equipment, advanced technology, it is a factory that is cheaper for us and that we can operate immediately." Interview Roland Etienne (Usinor) "The interest is to open markets to France in third world countries, to allow manufacturers to make themselves known." Franco-Chinese meal.
In Beijing, meeting with several representatives of the management of the company Speichim following the signing of a major commercial contract between France and the People’s Republic of China for the installation of a turnkey petrochemical complex in the country representing an investment of one billion francs. One of the French representatives of the company underlines the high Chinese technical quality and the seriousness of the Chinese technicians.
Jacqueline DUBOIS takes stock of the Franco-Chinese economic agreements concluded at the time of the visit of the Chinese Deputy Prime Minister FANG Yi which represents an important economic market for French companies.
Report devoted to the end of Nicolas SARKOZY’s trip to China which ended with the signing of major contracts such as the sale of nuclear power plants and Airbus aircraft. Comment on factual images alternating with the interview of Anne LAUVERGEON, Chairman of the Board of Areva and Louis GALLOIS, Chairman of EADS,
A look back at the development of Franco-Chinese economic relations and French investments in the People’s Republic of China since the visit of Chinese President Deng XIAOPING to France: co-construction of turnkey plants and power plant.
Interview with the French Minister of PTT Nobert SEGARD, returning from a trip to the People’s Republic of China on the opening of the country’s economic markets and its needs in the fields of telecommunications.
At the Gare de Lyon, in Paris, the first Chinese chargé d'affaires Mr SONG Zhiguang (Sun Chih-Kuang) arrives where he is welcomed by Mr de CASTEGEAC, director of protocol at the Quai d'Orsay. Simultaneously, in Beijing, Mr CHAYET, French chargé d'affaires, got off the train from Canton. Mister SONG Zhiguang intoned by journalists, receives bouquets of flowers - journalists sitting around him At the Continental Hotel, Mr SONG Zhiguang is interviewed in his apartment: he is delighted to become Senior Chargé d'affaires, he transmits the friendly wishes of the Chinese people, he wishes that the friendship between China and France will be strengthened.
Report devoted to the end of the visit of French President Jacques CHIRAC to China, accompanied by some of his ministers through Shanghai. During his trip, many contracts were signed with companies in the country. Visit of ubisoft’s premises and travel in a Shanghai metro train for the French president.
On the occasion of the arrival in France of the Chinese Prime Minister, Li PENG, commercial contracts will be signed between France and China: sale of Airbus, automotive industry. Interview with Jean-Pierre CHEVENEMENT, president of the Citizens' Movement: "China will be the power of the 21st century against the United States. France must have relations with China".
France will deliver its first nuclear power plant to China. Review of the progress of negotiations in the fields since the first trip to China of François MITTERRAND in May 1983. Archive images and interview with Edith CRESSON, Minister of Foreign Trade and Industrial Redevelopment on the economic benefits for French companies of the purchase made by China: it is advantageous for China and for French companies like EDF, Framatome will benefit from the benefits of this success.
About the sale of a plant of the company Motobécane turnkey to the People’s Republic of China, visit of the plant motobecane of St Quentin in Aisne. Interview with Pierre DELANIER, CEO of Motobécane France about the Chinese market.
Report on the visit of Chinese President XI Jinping to France inaugurated with a ceremony at the Hôtel des Invalides. Fifty commercial contracts were signed, including the purchase of 70 Airbus by China. The Chinese president then went to Lyon to taste the French charcuterie now allowed to be exported to China. Statements by François HOLLANDE, President of the French Republic, and XI Jinping, President of the Republic of China.