European Union and Chinese senior officials had a "deep and positive conversation" on green energy and the environment, but that there was "great room for improvement", the bloc's vice president for the clean transition, Teresa Ribera, tells a press conference after a day of meetings in Beijing. Deep frictions exist over economic relations between the 27-nation bloc and China, with Brussels worried that a manufacturing glut propelled by massive state subsidies could add to a yawning trade deficit and result in a flood of cheap Chinese goods undercutting European firms. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES