Xi says China and EU should enhance communication, deepen cooperation

China and the European Union should enhance communication and deepen cooperation as the global situation grows more complex and turbulent, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday in a meeting with Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro in Beijing.

China is willing to work closely with Portugal in multilateral cooperation to safeguard the free trade system and to promote a more just and reasonable global governance system, Xi was quoted by state news agency Xinhua as saying.