The seminar on "Celebrating the 58th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France - major challenges in 2022" was held at the Regional Chamber of Commerce and industry in Paris, France on July 7. More than 200 people from Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye, former French Prime Minister Raffarin and representatives of Chinese and French business circles attended the meeting on-site or remotely online. Lu Shaye delivered a keynote speech saying that China's economy has successfully achieved the expected goal of higher growth, lower inflation and more employment in 2021, and its fundamentals of strong resilience, sufficient potential and long-term improvement have not changed. China, France and China and the EU complement each other in terms of advantages, have broad common interests and huge needs for cooperation, consensus far outweighs differences, and cooperation far outweighs competition. China is willing to build a market-oriented, legal and international business environment for foreign-funded enterprises, including French and European enterprises. It also hopes that the EU will work with China to safeguard economic globalization and a free and open trade and investment environment. Raffarin said that France and Europe should fully respect China's history, culture, ancient civilization and social system. Under the epidemic situation, France, China, Europe and China should further strengthen cooperation in climate change, third-party markets and other fields to revive multilateralism. The participants had in-depth exchanges and discussions on China's economic situation, China France China EU economic and trade cooperation, the world epidemic situation, climate change and other topics, and answered the questions of the participants from the business community. (Xinhua News Agency)