Vice Premier Hui Liangyu on Tuesday pledged to boost agricultural cooperation with the European Union as he met with EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos.

Hui commended current China-EU relations during their meeting, saying the two sides have maintained high-level visits, carried out fruitful dialogues at all levels and kept coordination on major international and regional issues in recent years.

"China attaches great importance to developing relations with the EU and hopes the two sides will make full use of their respective advantages, strengthen dialogue and communication and further expand cooperation in agriculture, economy and trade," Hui said.

Hui pointed out that meeting the food demands of 1.3 billion people is a primary livelihood issue faced by the Chinese government, and China insists on solving the food supply problem by relying on domestic resources.

China is also willing to learn advanced experiences and technology from the EU to develop modern agriculture and improve productivity.

Ciolos said the EU is willing to strengthen multi-channel cooperation at all levels in the professional agricultural area to promote common development.

Xinhua