May bags £9b in China deals, Xi promises to build on 'golden era'
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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.
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