China's President Xi Jinping greets the media prior to the BRICS summit in Brasilia, Brazil Nov. 14, 2019. Pavel Golovkin/Pool via Reuters

MANILA -- China has dismissed as "completely groundless" concerns that it had control over the Philippines' power infrastructure as it urged critics to look at Manila's dealings with Beijing objectively.

"There is no need to worry about the sky falling or imagine trouble where there is none," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said in a transcript released by the Chinese Embassy in Manila on Thursday.

Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said the lack of full oversight over the a Filipino-Chinese consortium, the National Grid Corp, made it "onerous."

Senator Risa Hontiveros from the opposition also called for an investigation into the deal, expressing fears the Chinese partner in NGCP, the State Grid Corp of China could control facilities in the Philippines remotely.

The NGCP manages and operates the grid or the lines that connect power plants to distribution utilities. The infrastructure remains the property of the National Transmission Corp, a Philippine government company.

The SGCC owns 40 percent of TransCo while Filipino firms own the remaining 60 percent.

"The allegation of China's control over the Philippines' power grid or threat to the country's national security is completely groundless," Geng said.

The Philippines is China's "close and friendly neighbor" and supports Chinese investors in Manila, Geng said.