Shanghai

BRITISH Prime Minister Theresa May left China on Friday with deals worth more than £9.3 billion (S$17.35 billion), at the end of a three-trade trade mission where President Xi Jinping pledged to upgrade their "golden era" in relations.

Britain is trying to reinvent itself as a global trading nation after a 2016 referendum decision to leave the European Union, and China, the world's second-largest economy, is high on the list of countries that Britain wants to sign a free trade agreement with.