Financial cooperation leads relations

Premier underscores importance of ties between nations, telling British officials, 'We have much to offer each other'

Premier Li Keqiang urged Britain to seize momentum to consolidate its place as one of the most important offshore yuan markets outside Asia.

"China is an emerging major financial country and its financial development and reform is underway, while the UK, as a well-established financial power, has very open and vast and time-honored financial markets and institutions," Li said at the China-UK Financial Forum in London on Wednesday.