A number of Spanish experts and business people said recently that the Chinese market is very important and Europe should deepen cooperation with China.

Eduardo Ilastosa, a professor at OBS Business School in Barcelona, Spain, told the reporters that China's economic growth is obvious and the Chinese market is very attractive. Europe can become stronger from this market by defining a "unified" and "long-term" business strategy.

Mr Ilastossa said Europe should establish "deeper" economic and trade ties with China, which has enjoyed long-term stable growth and competitiveness.

The 2022 European Hydrogen Conference was held this month in Madrid, Spain. At the conference, many industry insiders have turned their eyes to China, believing that China will be one of the most important supply sources and consumer markets of green hydrogen energy. China "is a very active country and market in terms of green hydrogen," said Jose Antonio Borck, technical director of France's Technip Energy company.

Angel Rodriguez, head of the renewable energy division of Spain's Elekano Group, said the company currently has "a lot of cooperation" with Chinese companies in the photovoltaic business. "In terms of photovoltaic panels, almost all the major factories and suppliers are from China."

Spain is China's fifth largest trading partner within the EU, and China is Spain's largest trading partner outside the EU.

In 2021, the bilateral trade volume between China and Spain reached 48.414 billion US dollars, up 27.7 percent over the previous year. Spain's export to China reached 12.287 billion US dollars, up 18.3 percent. In the first quarter of this year, the year-on-year growth rate of china-Spain import and export exceeded double digits, reflecting the sound momentum of development of bilateral economic and trade cooperation.

By the end of 2020, China had been the world's second largest import market for 12 consecutive years and a major export destination for many countries and regions. In 2021, China's trade in goods exceeded us $6 trillion for the first time. The vast potential of China's market will provide a huge driving force for global growth and enable more enterprises to benefit from China's opening-up and development.