Baucus, Cui call for mutual efforts

New US Ambassador to China Max Baucus said the China-US relationship is considered the "most important bilateral relationship in the world" and the two countries should not be distracted by differences.

In a speech at the Boao Forum for Asia on Friday in Hainan province, Baucus highlighted the strong common economic interests of the two nations and said both sides need to "keep talking, keep working with each other and keep finding ways to address differences".

He said that as long as both sides work really hard, challenges like the territorial disputes in the South and East China seas will not be as big as they seem to be.