Cultural exchanges between the two nations officially began in the 1950s.
President Xi Jinping's meeting with US President Barack Obama has helped to alleviate tensions at a time when some countries have been playing up the South China Sea issue, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said.
Me and my big mouth. Picture this: The weekly news planning meeting at China Daily's London office is well underway, and the subject of President Xi Jinping's forthcoming state visit to the Czech Republic is under discussion.
As China and the Czech Republic prepare some large-scale sports diplomacy, top ice hockey coach Slavomir Lener still remembers his "crazy but great" time teaching in temperatures of -30 C in Northeast China two decades ago.
Jana Janeckova, the owner of Listdesign, a graphic design company in the Czech Republic, still rememberes the movie about Chinese calligraphy screened in Czech when she was a child.
The Czech first lady was toting black-and-white plush toy versions of Krtek (Little Mole), the popular Czech cartoon character that CCTV relaunched last week.