afternoon

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, 16, held talks here this morning.

meeting at 9:15 at the beginning. Before the talks, Premier Wen Jiabao in the Great Hall of the North Hall of Merkel's visit to China held a welcoming ceremony. After the talks, the two leaders jointly met with the members of the Sino-German Dialogue Forum, and attended the signing ceremony of bilateral cooperation documents.

the two governments, departments and enterprises with the signing of 10 cooperation agreements, covering finance, climate protection, environmental protection, cultural, economic and technical cooperation, service enterprise cooperation, export credit and medium and heavy truck production and other fields.

afternoon, President Hu Jintao and Vice President Xi Jinping will meet with Merkel.

Besides Beijing, Merkel will also visit Xi'an.

This is Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to China 4 times, as well as her re-election last October after the first visit to China. Merkel in a speech earlier this year, said: \(Reporter Liao, SPDC)