From September 16 to 20, 2022, Special Representative of the Chinese Government on European Affairs Wu Hongbo visited the European Union (EU) headquarters. He met respectively with Simon Mordue, Foreign Policy Advisor to European Council President Charles Michel, and Gunnar Wiegand, Managing Director for Asia and the Pacific of the European External Action Service. He also had exchanges and discussions with scholars from the European Policy Centre, the Europe-Asia Center and the Royal Institute for International Relations of Belgium, also known as the Egmont Institute.

The two sides exchanged in-depth views on the development of China-EU relations, high-level exchanges and pragmatic cooperation between China and the EU, and international and regional issues of common interest. Both sides agreed that China and the EU should strengthen exchanges at all levels, properly handle differences and jointly address global challenges.