{"id":11179,"date":"2022-10-18T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/?p=11179"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:36:12","slug":"key-facts-about-uk-china-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/key-facts-about-uk-china-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about UK-China relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The UK\u2019s policy towards China rightly sits at the forefront of our national debate for a variety of reasons. The China-Britain Business Council (CBBC) offers the following contribution both as a resource for our Members and the wider public and in the interest of stimulating discussion based on hard evidence and up-to-date information (this fact sheet updated 18 October 2022)<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/lp-cta-gateway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7246 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-gateway.png\" alt=\"launchpad gateway\" width=\"4680\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-gateway.png 4680w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-gateway-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-gateway-1024x172.png 1024w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-gateway-768x129.png 768w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-gateway-1536x258.png 1536w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-gateway-2048x344.png 2048w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-gateway-1920x322.png 1920w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-gateway-1170x197.png 1170w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-gateway-585x98.png 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4680px) 100vw, 4680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Trade and Economic Ties<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">China is now the UK\u2019s 4th largest goods trading partner, after the U.S. and Germany. In 2021, China was the UK\u2019s 6th largest export market for goods and the single largest source of imports.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">The UK\u2019s links to China via goods trade, tourism and education support an estimated 114,000 to 129,000 jobs across the country, according to 2020 research by Cambridge Econometrics.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">The UK\u2019s goods exports to China rose 0.8% year-on-year in 2021, to a total of \u00a318.1 billion. Imports from China increased 16.2% year-on-year to \u00a363.5 billion.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">In 2021, exports of essential goods (excl. crude oil and gold) were up 11.4%, compared to a much weaker recovery of comparable exports to other major trading partners: USA (1.7%), EU (2.0%), Japan (1.7%).<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">In 2021, the UK shipped 12.6% of its road vehicle exports, and 6.6% of its machinery and transport equipment exports to China.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">The UK\u2019s services exports to China increased by 1.1% in 2021, to a total of \u00a38.2 billion. Service imports from China rose 15.4% to \u00a32.5 billion.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">In August 2022, UK goods exports were worth around \u00a32.0 billion, up 28.5% year-on-year. Chinese imports into the UK were worth \u00a35.1 billion, a drop of -11.4% compared to the same month in 2021. In August, China was the UK\u2019s second-largest source of imports after Germany and the sixth-largest export destination. It was the UK\u2019s fourth largest trading partner behind Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Investment and Financial Services<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The UK is Europe\u2019s most popular destination for Chinese FDI; between 2000 and 2020, Chinese firms invested \u20ac51.9 billion (~\u00a344 billion) here.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By the end of 2019, British firms held FDI positions worth \u00a310.7 billion in mainland China. The stock of Chinese FDI in the UK stood at \u00a33.2 billion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The London-Shanghai Stock Connect opened in June 2019, the first trading link for a mainland Chinese market outside of Hong Kong.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">London is the world\u2019s largest hub for trading in the renminbi outside China.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Education<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Chinese Embassy in the UK estimates that there are currently between 200,000 and 216,000 Chinese students currently enrolled at British universities. Chinese students are by far the largest cohort of foreign students in Britain, accounting for a fifth of full-time places.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chinese students contribute \u00a32.1 billion (7% of all revenue) to the UK education sector.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tourism<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chinese tourists made a total of over 880,000 visits to Britain in 2019, up nearly sevenfold from a decade ago.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Those tourists spent some \u00a31.7 billion in the UK, with London, Edinburgh and Oxfordshire among the most popular destinations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/lp-cta-membership1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7248 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-membership1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"4680\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-membership1.png 4680w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-membership1-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-membership1-1024x172.png 1024w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-membership1-768x129.png 768w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-membership1-1536x258.png 1536w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-membership1-2048x344.png 2048w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-membership1-1920x322.png 1920w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-membership1-1170x197.png 1170w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/lp-membership1-585x98.png 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4680px) 100vw, 4680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s policy towards China rightly sits at the forefront of our national debate for a variety of reasons. The China-Britain Business Council (CBBC) offers the following contribution both as a resource for our Members and the wider public and in the interest of stimulating discussion based on hard evidence and up-to-date information (this fact sheet updated 18 October 2022) Trade and Economic Ties\u00a0 China is now the UK\u2019s 4th&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":11180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2169],"tags":[2200,245,2427,137],"class_list":["post-11179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-china-britain-business-council","tag-education","tag-paywall","tag-trade"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Key facts about UK-China relations - 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