More foreign leaders sent congratulatory messages Sunday to Xi Jinping on his election as the new Chinese president.
A meeting on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) came to an end on Sunday in the southern German city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, attracting more than 1,200 attendants from 32 countries and regions.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was one of the first foreign leaders to congratulate Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on March 15, CCTV said.
The rapid growth of bilateral trade and the increasingly closer economic ties between Germany and China during the past 20 years has led the two countries'economic interdependence to an unprecedented level, a study showed on Tuesday.
Investments from China have helped create jobs in Germany and positively affected economy, thus should be welcomed, a German think tank said on Monday.