Full text of China's Policy Paper on the EU(4)

VIII. Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Protection, Water Resources and Maritime Cooperation

Actively promote the climate negotiation and cooperation through ministerial-level dialogue and cooperation mechanisms on climate change and China-EU Partnership on Climate Change. Uphold the principles and articles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and promote a fair and effective international system. Reinforce pragmatic cooperation on low-carbon development, market schemes, low-carbon urbanization and capacity building.

Bring the China-EU Ministerial Dialogue on Environmental Policy and its coordinators' meetings into full play, enhance cooperation on sustainable development, climate change, atmospheric pollution, biodiversity and ecosystem conservation and form greater synergy between China' s efforts to pursue ecological progress and EU' s efforts to increase resource efficiency. Encourage friendly exchanges between Chinese and European non-governmental environmental organizations and businesses of the two sides to enter each other' s environmental markets through fair competition.

Enhance China-EU cooperation on energy security, and jointly cope with the challenges of price competition, supply security and stability, and environmental protection. Conduct China-EU Energy Policy Dialogue, and deepen cooperation on natural gas infrastructure, new energy, smart grid, power grid safety regulation and energy strategy modeling.

Leverage the role of China-EU Water Platform, enhance understanding and cooperation on water resources policy making and overall management, share advanced expertise and technologies of water management, boost the significance and visibility of water resources cooperation under the overall framework of China-EU strategic cooperation, and promote China-EU long-term dialogue and cooperation on water resources, and a joint China-EU response to the global water crisis.x Bring into full play the role of China-EU high-level dialogue on comprehensive marine management, conduct high-level dialogue on maritime affairs, promote bilateral cooperation in areas of shared interest, and conduct cooperation on comprehensive marine management, marine environment protection, marine science and technology, blue economy, maritime law enforcement and Arctic affairs.

IX. Cooperation in the Fields of Education, Culture, Press, Publication and Youth Exchange

Fully harness the leading role of the China-EU High-Level People-to-People Dialogue and actively promote cooperation in the fields of education, culture, press, publication and youth exchange between China and the EU as well as EU member states.

Expand exchanges between students and scholars and promote friendship and mutual understanding between Chinese and European young students, and strive to expand the interflow of students between the two sides to 300,000 person times per year by 2020; enhance cooperation in the teaching of Chinese and European languages and training of teachers and continue the China-EU Dialogue on Education Policy; support the establishment of centers for Chinese studies and centers for European national and regional studies by European and Chinese higher learning institutions and make an effort to build the China-EU Platform for Higher Education Cooperation and Exchange; encourage European and Chinese universities to carry out high-quality cooperation in running schools, jointly advance high-level scientific research programs and help high-level talents to emerge.

Follow through on the outcomes of China-EU Year of Intercultural Dialogue, and ensure the long-term effect of cultural cooperation supported by sound institutions. China supports the efforts to strengthen China-EU dialogue on cultural policies as well as experience sharing in cultural industries, heritage preservation and contemporary art.

Promote exchanges and cooperation in the field of press and publication, and encourage the media from both sides to enhance mutual understanding so that they can present a comprehensive and objective picture of each other' s politics, economy and culture, produce documentaries and publish books and news articles that reflect each other' s economic development, history, culture and customs, cooperate in making films and TV programs, and jointly hold film and TV exhibitions and festivals and book fairs. Continue to strengthen interactions and exchanges between government departments, support the institutional building and deepening of regular China-EU media exchanges, and carry out cooperation through various channels and in various forms, with a view to creating a favorable public opinion environment for the sound and stable growth of China-EU relations.

Make use of new media tools to expand the China-EU platform of information exchange and enable the public to better understand each other' s policies, ideas, development goals, strategic orientation and cultural achievements. Strengthen youth exchange and consolidate the outcomes of China-EU Year of Youth and the China-EU High-Level People-to-People Dialogue, improve the China-EU Youth Policy Dialogue and the platform for exchanges between youth organizations, encourage youth organizations at all levels from different places of China and the EU to carry out exchange and cooperation, and build a wide-ranging, multi-tiered pattern for China-EU youth exchanges.

Strengthen and expand China-EU consular cooperation, and facilitate the personnel interflow between the two sides. China hopes that the EU could take credible steps to protect the safety and lawful rights and interests of Chinese citizens in Europe, and make it easier for Chinese nationals to travel to Europe by, among other things, streamlining visa, immigration and residence procedures. Push for the establishment of China-EU tourism cooperation mechanism, further explore each other' s tourism market, maintain exchanges of tourism policies and statistics, and work for the early signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Bilateral Tourism Cooperation. The relevant EU member states are urged to speed up the adoption of the Chinese language as an official language of the World Tourism Organization. Strengthen cooperation on exit and entry administration, exchange between border inspection and immigration departments at airports with direct flight link, joint case investigation and fight against illegal immigration.