{"id":611700,"date":"2025-12-04T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611700\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:14:12","slug":"macron-urges-chinese-firms-to-invest-in-france-eu-as-tech-gap-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611700\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron urges Chinese firms to invest in France, EU as tech gap widens"},"content":{"rendered":"

French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Chinese companies to invest in France and transfer know-how in emerging sectors like batteries, electric vehicles (EVs)<\/a> and solar panels \u2013 highlighting growing concerns over the widening technological gap between the two countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to welcome more Chinese investment through projects and re-industrialisation strategies, and this is what will allow us to break the cycle we\u2019re currently in,\u201d he said on Thursday in Beijing, where he attended a French-Chinese Business Council meeting alongside President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

Macron called for \u201cmutually beneficial projects\u201d in sectors where he acknowledged China\u2019s technological advantage, and urged Chinese firms to play a role in Europe\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

Chinese customs data on last year\u2019s top traded goods with France could shed light on Paris\u2019 motivations. Eight of China\u2019s 10 largest exports to France by value were technologically advanced goods. EV batteries, laptops, solar panels and turbojet engine components featured in the top five, though small parcels still topped the list, mainly from e-commerce platforms like Shein and Temu.<\/p>\n

The remainder of the top ten included container ships, electronic equipment, data processors, smartphones and clothes.<\/p>\n

By contrast, four of France\u2019s top exports to China by value were critical technologies, including aircraft engines, medicine and medium- to large-sized aircraft. Cosmetic products topped the list, accounting for 9 per cent of China\u2019s total import value from the European country. The rest were fashion and agricultural goods such as cognac, handbags, flax, jewellery and wheat.<\/p>\n

Analysts said the data pointed to a reversal in trade dynamics. Twenty years ago, China mainly sold basic consumer goods like clothes, tables and chairs to France, while the European country led in high-speed rail and aerospace technology, said Sacha Courtial, a China researcher at the Paris-based Institut Jacques Delors<\/a> think tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Chinese companies to invest in France and transfer know-how in emerging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[191037,11078,3801,11330,1395,28901,191038,1305,44456,34,2000,299,36,191036,38723,1411],"class_list":{"0":"post-611700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-aircraft-engines","9":"tag-batteries","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-brussels","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-chinese-companies","14":"tag-cosmetic-products","15":"tag-electric-vehicles","16":"tag-elysee-palace","17":"tag-emmanuel-macron","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-france","21":"tag-french-chinese-business-council","22":"tag-loreal","23":"tag-paris"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115661482668174492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}