China News Service, Beijing, March 2. The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the US State Legislative Leadership Foundation jointly held the 5th China-US Provincial and State Legislature Cooperation Forum on the 2nd with the theme of "Win-Win Cooperation, Rewriting New Chapters" Video meeting.

　　This forum is the first China-U.S. exchange and cooperation mechanism activity resumed after the new U.S. government took office. It aims to implement the important consensus reached by the Chinese and U.S. heads of state during the Spring Festival call. It is of special significance.

　　Lin Songtian, President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, stated in his speech that the Sino-US Provincial and State Legislature Cooperation Forum was one of the important achievements of President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States in 2015. It is intended to promote mutually beneficial cooperation between China and the United States and enhance the friendship between the two peoples. And understanding played a positive role.

In the face of the common challenge of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the people and local governments of the two countries sympathized and supported each other to overcome the difficulties together, and the bilateral trade cooperation grew against the trend.

Facts have proved that mutually beneficial cooperation and common development between China and the United States, so that all people can live a better life, are the common expectations of the two peoples and are in the common interests of the two peoples.

　　He said that the biggest perplexity in Sino-US relations is the problem of understanding, and the fundamental way out lies in making wise strategic choices.

It is believed that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, local exchanges and cooperation between China and the United States are expected to return to the fast lane, and the China-US Provincial and State Legislature Cooperation Forum will usher in new development.

　　Regis, chairman of the US State Legislative Leadership Foundation, said that although the United States and China have differences and competition, they face many common challenges such as pandemic diseases, poverty, infrastructure construction, and climate change. They should strengthen dialogue on the basis of mutual respect. To increase mutual trust, maintain good relations, and achieve common progress through constructive competition, it is time for the United States and China to resume local-level dialogue at this moment.

The US State Legislative Leaders Foundation will continue to cooperate with the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries to enhance the dynamic relationship between the American and Chinese people.

　　Chinese ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai sent a video message to the forum, stating that there are a thousand reasons for Sino-US relations to get better and no reason to go bad.

The two countries should work together and meet each other halfway, uphold the spirit of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation, focus on cooperation, manage differences, promote the healthy and stable development of Sino-US relations, and bring more benefits to the two peoples. , To make due contributions to the cause of human peace and development.

　　The heads of the standing committees of the seven provinces (cities) of Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Hubei, Guangdong, and Yunnan, and the leaders of the seven states of Alabama, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Michigan, and Tennessee attended the meeting. Speak successively.

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