EU Ambassador to China Hans Dietmar Schweisgut attends a news conference at the Delegation of the European Union to China in Beijing May 9, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
BEIJING (Reuters) - Europe hopes China's upcoming Communist Party Congress will help to speed up the country's market reforms, the European Union's ambassador to China said, calling Chinese criticism of an EU plan to screen foreign investment "unreasonable".
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker earlier this month proposed an EU-wide investment screening mechanism amid growing concern in Europe about acquisitions by Chinese state-controlled or state-financed companies.
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