BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday held a banquet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to welcome U.S. President Donald Trump on his state visit to China.
Addressing the banquet, Xi said the China-U.S. relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the current world.
"We must make it work, and never mess it up," Xi said, adding that both China and the United States stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation.
"Our two countries should be partners rather than rivals," he added.
Xi also said that the two sides agreed to build a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability to promote the steady, sound, and sustainable development of China-U.S. relations, and bring more peace, prosperity and progress to the world.
