First lady Peng Liyuan appealed on Monday for greater efforts to promote cultural and people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States.
Telling the story of two nations from points of view of the prominent and ordinary alike
1 On Seattle: Xi reminded his audience that he was no stranger to Washington state and Seattle. "Known as the Evergreen State and the Emerald City, here you have got the majestic Mount Rainier and the charming Lake Washington. The film Sleepless in Seattle has made the city almost a household name in China."
China's first lady Peng Liyuan, who was a renowned singer, visited the Juilliard School, one of the world's pre-eminent performing arts conservatories, on Monday morning.
China's first lady Peng Liyuan, who was a renowned singer, visited the Juilliard School, one of the world's pre-eminent performing arts conservatories, on Monday, and the school's president announced during her tour that Juilliard will open its first campus outside New York in Tianjin, China.
Since the announcement that the US and China had extended visitor visas from a year to 10 years, more Americans and Chinese are taking advantage of tourism opportunities.
What would people say if an American reporter rounds up a dozen international students on a US college campus and queries them on their impressions of the US president in the lead-up to his state visit to China? And what if they are to give their answers in Chinese?
It has been a long time since Chinese students and immigrants have gathered along the streets of the US capital and waved Chinese national flags.
China and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding on foreign aid cooperation on Friday in Washington during President Xi Jinping's state visit to the US.
Peng Liyuan and Michelle Obama give the name "Bei Bei" to a panda cub in Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington Sept 25, 2015.