A customer selects imported goods at a supermarket in Yichang, Central China's Hubei province, July 24, 2015. [Photo/IC]

China and Singapore announced the readiness to launch negotiations to upgrade their seven-year-old free trade agreement (FTA).

During visit to Vietnam and Singapore, Nov 5-6

China and Russia have reached broad consensus on Eurasian economic integration. China has agreed to launch talks with the Eurasian Economic Union on an economic and trade cooperation deal, as well as on the "docking" of China's Silk Road Economic Belt initiative.

During visits to Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus, May 7–12