Li said the impact caused by the virus is only temporary. Its negative influence on foreign trade mainly depends on the duration and scope of the epidemic.
Li said the 13 countries should firmly safeguard multilateralism and free trade against rising protectionism. The RCEP negotiations will be moved forward in the last stage and the China-Japan-ROK free trade zone is being discussed in a smooth way, he said. The two free trade mechanisms should be pushed forward in a balanced way to defend rules-based multilateral trading systems and provide a stable, free and law-based environment, he said.
Liang Hong, chief economist of the China International Capital Corp Ltd, said that investors were panic selling on Tuesday because of the trade war initiated by the US and also due to China's deleveraging moves.
Li's remarks are backed by numbers. Alipay and WeChat Pay combined a whopping 94 percent of China's 18.8 trillion yuan (.85 trillion) mobile payment market in the first quarter of 2017, according to Analysys. Apple Pay, albeit being a hit in Western countries, has less than 1 percent of the market share.
Li said he was optimistic about the future for pickup trucks in China because of recent consumption upgrades and the country's lifting of restrictions on the vehicles.
Liang Jianzhang, chairman of Ctrip, said the company will continue to expand into lower-tier cities and invest in international markets.
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Li met with Oshima when he traveled to Tokyo two months ago to attend the seventh China-Japan-Republic of Korea Leaders' Meeting and pay an official visit to Japan, the first by a Chinese premier in eight years.
Li said Vaillant remained confident in its development in the Chinese market despite the epidemic, adding that as China entered the phase of regular epidemic prevention and control, the company's investment plan in China will remain unchanged this year and it will increase the number of its sales staff by 15 percent to expand its business in China's third-and fourth-tier cities.
Lin Ping, an official with the zone, said it had attracted 24 foreign medical technology companies and 36 overseas doctors from countries including the United States, Germany, Japan and South Korea. A total of 55,000 patients have been treated at hospitals in the zone since last year.
Li ordered the Nazi uniform he wore in the photos from his hometown. On the evening of Dec 30, Li went with a colleague surnamed Wu and three other colleagues to the martyrs cemetery and had photographs taken of him and Wu wearing Nazi uniforms.