China expressed concern on its major green buyer Morocco's pesticide residue test in green tea, appealing the two sides to enhance communication on that issue.

Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai told Morocco's Minister of External Commerce Mustapha Mechahouri in Beijing Tuesday that green tea was China's traditional product with reliable quality, vowing to expand China-Morocco trade and two-way investment.

China sold 49,000 tons of green tea to Morocco, worth 77 million US dollars and accounted for nearly one third of the country's total export of green tea, figures released by the Chinese ministry show.

China-Morocco trade surged by nearly 50 percent year-on-year to hit 860 million US dollars last year and is expected to exceed 1.2 billion US dollars this year, the figures show.

Bo said China attaches importance on a balanced trade with Morocco and has taken strong measures to encourage Chinese enterprises to buy more from Morocco, adding that he hopes the businesses of the two countries make close contact and enhance the bilateral trade.

He said Chinese companies are very strong in building road, ports, power stations and hotels, appealing Morocco exchange information on major projects with China to facilitate the Chinese companies' bidding in those sectors.

"China is willing to expand the two-way investment with Morocco," Bo said.

Mechahouri said he welcomes Chinese enterprises to invest in Morocco and hopes the bilateral trade could be further expanded.

Source: Xinhua