Chinese Premier Li Qiang delivers a speech at a dinner with the Chinese and French business communities in Paris, France, June 21, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

BEIJING - Chinese Premier Li Qiang returned to Beijing on Saturday morning by chartered plane after concluding the seventh China-Germany inter-governmental consultation and paying an official visit to Germany, and paying an official visit to France and attending the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact.

State Councilor and Secretary-General of the State Council Wu Zhenglong, among other accompanying officials, returned to Beijing on the same plane.

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When leaving Paris, Li was seen off by French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti and Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye at the airport.