President Xi Jinping said on Sunday that he stands ready to work with his Bangladeshi counterpart, Abdul Hamid, to better align the two countries' strategies and jointly promote the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, in order to take the China-Bangladesh strategic partnership of cooperation to new heights.

In the first seven months of 2020, China surpassed the United States to become the biggest trading partner of the European Union (EU), said Eurostat, the EU's statistics organization.

The 2020 China International Import Expo (CIIE) scheduled for Nov. 5-10 in Shanghai confirms China's efforts to promote global trade despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a Cuban expert has said.