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From Iowa farm to White House: Look back at Xi's US visits

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2015-09-22 09:50:16

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First trip: April 1985

Muscatine, Iowa

As Party Secretary of Zhengding county, Hebei province

Friendly Iowan people

From Iowa farm to White House: Look back at Xi's US visits

Xi Jinping (center) at a picnic at the farm of Janet Rauch in 1985. Janet Rauch / for China Daily

President Xi Jinping first visited the United States in 1985, not long after the establishment of Sino-US diplomatic relations in 1979. He went to Muscatine, an agricultural center in the US heartland, when he led a delegation to learn about farming technology. Xi showed wide interest in agricultural technologies, including pig breeding, local people recalled.

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