Welcome to the official website of The Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office, Embassy of the People's Republic of China.

As the largest developing country and the largest industrialized nation in the world, China and the United States are getting increasingly interdependent and complementary in the field of trade and economic cooperation. A healthy and stable bilateral trade and economic relationship between China and U.S. will not only benefit the people of the two nations, but also promote the prosperity and stability of the world economy.

Since China established diplomatic relations with the United States in 1979, bilateral trade and economic cooperation have become one of the most important foundations and driving forces of the bilateral relations. According to the statistics released by Chinese Custom, the volume of China-U.S. bilateral trade exceeded USD74.4 billion in 2000 with a significant jump of 21.2% compared with the previous year. Meanwhile, the total contractual U.S. investment in China reached USD63.41 billion by the end of May 2001.

On this website, we would like to present brief but concise introductions to up-to-date China-U.S. economic and trade relationship, U.S. economy and American market environment. We sincerely hope this site will be a useful window, which will enhance the mutual understandings between the business circles of our two countries and to further promote our cooperation in respective fields.