

FRANCE 24 talked to Mary-Françoise Renard, an economics professor at the University of Clermont Auvergne and director of the Institute of Research on China’s Economy, to shed light on current Sino-Franco trade relations.

This series of freshly inked business deals, highlighted by Macron’s trip to China, seems to show France’s positive outlook on business in China. Meanwhile, French national electricity company Électricité de France (EDF) renewed its contract with Chinese energy giant China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN). Cosmetics leader L’Oréal sealed a deal with e-commerce platform Alibaba on ‘sustainable consumption’ while water and waste management company Suez clinched a desalination contract with China’s Wanhua chemical. The announcement was made only a day after Airbus pledged to double production in China by setting up a second assembly line at its Tianjin plant.

Business is in the air as Airbus announced on Friday that it would deliver 50 helicopters to GDAT, one of China's largest helicopter lessors.
