Fruitful people-to-people exchanges a pillar of relationship

People-to-people exchange is one of the three important pillars of China-US relations in the new era, along with mutual trust and economic and trade cooperation, Vice-Premier Liu Yandong said during an annual high-level discussion on Tuesday.

"People-to-people exchange has had a fruitful result and has played a remarkable role in building a new type of cooperative relationship with the United States," Liu said during the plenary session of the seventh annual US-China High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange.

"China and the US have far more common interests than differences," Liu said.