China, France ink $30b deals

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BEIJING, Nov 26 (AFP): China and France signed today nuclear, aviation and other contracts that officials said were worth around 30 billion dollars, an amount French President Nicolas Sarkozy described as unprecedented.
"The total amount of these contracts has never been matched before," Sarkozy told his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao as they met in Beijing's Great Hall of the People before the signing ceremony, according to an AFP journalist there.
The contracts included one eight-billion-euro (11.9-billion- dollar) deal for the delivery of two third-generation nuclear reactors by French firm Areva, and an agreement worth more than 17 billion dollars for 160 Airbus planes.