Political leaders: Sino-US relations to grow

China is poised in the new era to deepen its relationship with the United States in their shared pursuit of a better world, and bilateral exchanges among political parties should play a bigger role, veteran politicians and strategists said on Monday in Beijing at a dialogue between the Communist Party of China and US political parties.

Song Tao, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, said the dialogue offers a chance to put into practice several crucial consensuses to strengthen bilateral ties reached between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump during the US leader's first visit to China last month.

The 10th US-China Political Party Leaders Dialogue, attended by some 50 delegates from both countries, came under the framework of the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting, which concluded on Sunday. Attendees on the US side were from both the controlling Republican Party and the Democratic Party, as well as from leading think tanks.