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Outside the EU, China is the second-largest trading partner of UK.

In 2017, Sino-UK bilateral trade in goods reached more than $79 billion, an increase of 6.2 percent over the previous year.

Chinese official statistics showed that China's exports to the UK reached $56.7 billion in 2017, a year-on-year rise of 1.8 percent.

China's imports from the UK reached $22.3 billion, an increase of 19.4 percent over the previous year.

The country's national pavilion at the CIIE showcases the world's leading companies in the fields of healthcare and life sciences, finance and professional services, education, creative industries, artificial intelligence and big data with innovation as the theme.

Well-known UK companies, including Jaguar, Land Rover, British Airways, AstraZeneca, Standard Chartered Bank, also set up booths at the expo.