PARIS/SHANGHAI, March 28 (Reuters) - China's commerce minister will travel to Europe in April for discussions about the European Commission's investigation into whether China's electric vehicle industry has benefited from unfair subsidies, four people briefed on the plan told Reuters.

Wang Wentao will visit France, a French government source and two other people with knowledge of the trip told Reuters. France's trade ministry and European Commission did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

(Reporting by Leigh Thomas in Paris, Zhang Yan in Shanghai and Anne Marie Roantree in Hong Kong; Additional reporting by Gilles Guillaume, Mimosa Spencer and Michel Rose in Paris, Emmma Rumney in London, Julia Payne in Brussels and Giulio Piovaccari in Milan; writing by Kevin Krolicki; editing by Josephine Mason and Barbara Lewis)