(CNN) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron and a contingent of ministers and business leaders arrived in Beijing Tuesday as part of a tour to boost bilateral trade with the world's second-largest economy.
"This week I am leading one of the biggest and most high-powered British delegations ever to visit China," Cameron said in a piece written for the Wall Street Journal.
"We aim to deliver more than 40 specific agreements across the whole range of our bilateral relationship, from trade to low-carbon growth, to cultural and education initiatives," he said in the piece that appeared Tuesday.
"All of it, seeking to take Britain's relationship with China to a new level and to achieve strong co-operation on our shared economic and political interests".
"It is the biggest delegation ever to China, led by a British Prime Minister," Sebastian Wood, British ambassador to China, told a press briefing in the embassy prior to the visit, according to China's Xinhua news agency.
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