A staff member at the Washington Wardman Hotel displays an umbrella with giant panda designed on it on Tuesday as President Xi Jinping begins his state visit to the United States.
The bilateral investment treaty between China and US have made substantial progress and the bilateral trade will focus on agricultural and service sectors, said a senior American official on Tuesday.
President Xi called for closer cooperation between China and Washington State in a meeting with the governor, members of the state Senate and Assembly.
China is ready to cooperate with US in fighting cyber crimes and will not manipulate its currency to boost exports or discriminate against foreign businesses.
President Xi Jinping said that China wants to see more understanding and trust between the US and China, "less estrangement and suspicion in order to forestall misunderstanding and miscalculation."
In the last 20 years, Chinese women have made "remarkable progress" in economic, political and social participation, but " are basically flat" when it comes to making progress with men in education, health and social security, an official with China's largest women's public welfare organization told a summit meeting on women at the United Nations on Tuesday.
Highlights in China-US ties over past four decades
The western world pays too much attention to China's stock market and needs to focus on the country's attempt to increase the role of consumer spending and services in its economy, two money-management professionals told an audience on Tuesday.
In the past 36 years since China and the US established diplomatic ties the progress of relations from suspicion and testing to mutual trust and win-win cooperation is not only visible in movies but also in culture, education, politics and economy.
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