China signs Airbus deal worth €3bn

China signed today contracts to buy five Airbus A380 super-jumbo jets and other French goods in deals worth more than €3bn as Jean-Pierre Raffarin began an official visit to China.

Agreements signed by Chinese and French officials also called for China to buy French nuclear power and railway equipment. Raffarin and his Chinese counterpart, Wen Jiabao, attended the signing ceremony.