China and the United States on Wednesday held their third round of strategic dialogue at the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

"Hopefully the dialogue will produce positive results," Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said in the opening address.

"The United States and China have very important relationship," the U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said.

"The relationship focuses on bilateral issues that motivate us from day to day, and we also have other issues..(Because) together we have responsibility for global peace and global security," Burns said.

Yang and Burns co-chaired the one-day closed-door dialogue.

Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo will meet with Burns Wednesday afternoon.

Two rounds of China-U.S. strategic dialogues had been held in August and December last year.