Is there a spring thaw in the air for the US and China? Maybe.

Hello, I'm Leanna Byrne and good morning and you are listening to the Marketplace Morning

Report and we're live from the BBC World Service.

So the US and China have been at odds lately,

but it seems like they're trying to mend fences. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

is in China for meetings with government officials and American business leaders and she says

they're not talking about cutting economic ties or decoupling as some call it.

We have agreed that it's important to both of us, that we don't want to decouple our economies,

we want to continue and we think we both benefit from trade and investment, but that it needs to be in a level playing field.

Now having said that, Yellen's heading to Guangdong Province, the manufacturing heartland,

to address what she sees as China's over production of

green technology as the BBC's Laura Bicker reports. Janet Yellen is heading to the

heart of trade and export in China where she'll meet Chinese and US executives.

In a speech before the trip she announced she planned to address concerns that China is

over producing green technology, driving down prices and hurting American firms.

Ms Yellen has declined to say whether the US will raise tariffs on these goods.

Beijing will argue it leads the way in these industries, which it claims

is helping to combat climate change globally. China is also relying on these exports to

boost an ailing economy.

Laura Bicker there.

Okay, let's do the numbers.

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