French first lady Brigitte Macron has reunited with a giant panda born in France during a visit to China with President Emmanuel Macron.

French leader Emmanuel Macron concluded his fourth state visit to China on Friday, striking a more relaxed note in the city of Chengdu after

Hundreds of Chinese students and local residents lined up at a university in the city of Chengdu to welcome the French president. Meanwhile, First Lady Brigitte Macron paid a visit to Chengdu's giant panda research base.

French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to China this week for his fourth state visit, as Europe seeks to balance economic and security threats from Beijing with reliance on the world's second-largest economy during a time of global trade turmoil.

At a panda reserve in southwest China that Yuan Meng now calls home, the first lady marveled at how big he has grown.

Macron’s visit to China will focus mainly on bilateral relations between Paris and Beijing and will also seek to revive the dialogue on trade, as the European Union has become one of the main collateral victims of the China-US trade war, Le Grand Continent, a French journal reported on Wednesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron called for a fairer, more balanced economic relationship between China and Europe during his state visit to Beijing. Speaking alongside President Xi Jinping, Macron urged stronger global economic governance and warned that current trade imbalances are unsustainable.