Highlights of Commerce Ministry's news conference

FTAs boost multilateral trade negotiations: vice minister

China will continue to support free trade agreements and multilateral trade negotiations, said Vice-Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen on Sunday.

So far, China has signed 16 free trade agreements with 24 countries and regions, Wang said at a press conference during the first session of the 13th National People's Congress.

The development of trade and investment relations between China and its free trade partners was faster than that with non-free trade partners, he said.