David Cameron has protected the UK's business joins with China as he said arrangements worth £40bn had been struck amid President Xi Jinping's visit.
Mr Cameron hailed an arrangement giving China a 30% stake in another atomic plant.
The PM said the two nations could look after an "in number relationship" while having "fundamental and honest dialogs" about issues like the steel business and human rights.
President Xi said his nation "joins colossal significance" to human rights.
At a UK-China business summit as a component of the Chinese president's state visit, Mr Cameron and President Xi saw the marking of various venture assentions, including an arrangement in the middle of EDF and China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) for an atomic force plant at Hinkley Point, Somerset.
The mostly state-possessed EDF said the last cost would be £18bn. State-claimed CGN will pay £6bn for 33% of it.
'Solid organization'
President Xi's state visit comes as a great many employment misfortunes are reported in the UK steel industry.
Tata Steel has reported the most recent in a progression of cuts, with 1,200 employments going at its plants in Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire.
China has been blamed for dumping steel in the UK, which means offering it at uneconomic costs, which has been incompletely reprimanded at giving way costs.
Talking at a joint question and answer session with the Chinese president, Mr Cameron said the issue of the worldwide oversupply of steel had been examined, and included that the two countries could examine the issue and also human rights concerns while keeping up a business relationship.
Move would be made in Britain to help the steel business on vitality expenses, acquirement and assessment, Mr Cameron said.
He included: "So I thoroughly dismiss the thought you either have a discussion about human rights and steel, or you have an in number association with China. I need both and we are conveying both and it's the point at which you have that solid relationship, with an in number organization we have, you have the capacity to talk about these issues."
Bringing down Street affirmed that Mr Cameron had raised human rights issues with Mr Xi yet would not go into the particular concerns he had communicated.
Mr Cameron's representative said: "The leader raised the issue of human rights, the significance of nations cooperating to address issues, to discuss the significance of what this implies as nations create and move advances."
- (BBC)
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