The European Green deal，a development strategy launched by the new EU commission，clearly proposes that the EU will become the first “carbon neutral” world continent in 2050 and accelerate EU transformation to green and low-carbon society. Given the EU’ leadership on global climate governance，this strategy will have an impact on China EU cooperation on climate change in the medium and long term. Looking forward to the prospects of EU-China climate change cooperation，there are several points worthy of attention. First，China and the EU both have been seriously impacted and affected by COVID-19 pandemic，but strengthening their cooperation on climate change is still a major issue of EU-China summit；Second，European green deal will bring new challenges to China EU cooperation on climate change. China must carefully consider and actively respond to it. Third，the European green new deal will promote the transformation of EU climate governance from market regulation to legal system，and lead a new round of regulation setting on global climate change；Fourth，the Just Transition Mechanism designed by the European green deal will accelerate the industrial transformation and decarbonisation for high-carbon emission regions，and provide new opportunities for fair development in regions with different resource endowment. China and EU have great potential for cooperation on climate change under the European green deal.