Chinese, US presidents start talks

Chinese President Xi Jinping said his visit to the United States aims to chart out the blueprint for the development of the Sino-US relations and start cross-Pacific cooperation, while he started the meeting with his American counterpart Barack Obamaat the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Estate at Sunnylands in California on Saturday.

At the start of the talk, Xi thanked Obama for the invitation and said the location of the meeting is quite close to the Pacific Ocean and China is just on the other side.

Xi said that when he was visiting the US last year, he said the Pacific Ocean is broad enough for two powers of China and the US and today he sticks to the same belief.

After a brief review of the China-US relations in the past 40 years, Xi said the bilateral relationship is at a historical starting point. China and the US have a lot of mutual interests from economic development of each country to the recovery and stability of global economy, from handling regional and international security issues to global challenges, so both countries should seek even more exchanges and cooperation.

Xi said he believes the talks in California will achieve significant and positive results and inject more vitality into the bilateral relations.