18/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - Shared interest in greater cooperation in competition policy. Competition policy and and economic reforms were at the centre of a number of meetings with the Chinese authorities (the respective departments for trade, administration and industry, development and reform, supervision and administration of state enterprises etc.) during the Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager's visit to China on Friday 18 March. The Commissioner explained “The meetings confirmed our shared interest in strengthening our cooperation on competition matters. They provided me with a first-hand sense of the challenges and urgency of China's reform-in particular the ambition to let the market shape the economy, for domestic and foreign operators alike. I believe the European experience of building our open single market and our history of restructuring and liberalising a number of sectors contains useful ideas in this respect”. The Commissioner also explained that she had shared the Commission's experiences as a state aid supervisory body in the single market, with her Chinese interlocutors. (EH)