DES MOINES, the United States, June 12 -- The prospects of U.S.-China relations are very promising, according to participants of the U.S.-China Think Tank Symposium, which opened Monday in Des Moines, capital of U.S. state of Iowa.
More than 20 Chinese and U.S. experts and scholars gathered here to deliberate on such topics as Sino-U.S. relations after the Mar-a-Lago meeting, economic and trade cooperation, local cooperation and the prospects of the relationship between the two countries.
In a speech at the opening ceremony, Former Minister of the State Council Information Office Zhao Qizheng said rapid development of Sino-U.S. economic and trade cooperation not only is an epitome of Sino-U.S. relations, but also helps build up a solid foundation for Sino-U.S. cooperation in other fields.
"People of both countries have benefited from this economic and trade relationship," said Zhao. "Sino-U.S. economic and trade cooperation promises huge opportunities and potentials, and the prospects are very promising."
It is vital to establish an unimpeded dialogue and cooperation mechanism between the two countries, and think tanks can provide useful reference and rational consultation in this field, Zhao stressed.
As for trade gap, Zhao holds that China runs a surplus in goods trade but a deficit in service trade with the United States. Both Chinese and U.S. governments are making efforts to narrow the gap, and have introduced the 100-Day Action Plan and reached consensus on the next-step targets.
Chinese Consul General in Chicago Hong Lei said the relationship between China and the United States has experienced ups and downs all the way along but has forged ahead, economic and trade cooperation has played the roles of "ballast stone" and "propeller."
"Sino-U.S. relationship is one of the most important bilateral relations in the world, for which economic and trade cooperation is the most active and lasting driving force," Hong added.
Zach Nunn, member of the Iowa State Legislature, Stapleton Roy, former U.S. ambassador to China, and Kenneth Quinn, president of World Food Prize Foundation, expressed wishes for mutual beneficial and win-win relationship between China and the United States. Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie attended the meeting.
Chinese scholars and experts visited Kimberley Farm on Sunday, where they looked around farm machinery, warehouses, and farm land, and exchanged views with farm owner Rick Kimberley on operation mode, mechanization and management of modern farms, as well as on agricultural exchange between China and the United States.
Statistics show that bilateral goods trade between China and the United States has jumped from 2.5 billion U.S. dollars in 1979 to 519.6 billion dollars in 2016, up 207 times. In 2016, bilateral service trade volume between the two countries exceeded 100 billion dollars, and the two-way investment totaled 170 billion dollars.
The symposium is jointly sponsored by the World food Prize Foundation, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.
It takes two to tango 一个巴掌拍不响
Axe to grind 别有用心
The university of life 生活经历
There's method to my madness 我有一个不合常理的办法
India's sewer workers and British school standards 印度下水道工人施工安全,英国在校生学习成绩下降
Phelps makes history and marine species 菲尔普斯创造历史,海洋新物种
Knee-jerk reaction 本能反映
Burn a hole in your pocket 有钱不花难受
Barefaced 厚颜无耻的
The cost of protecting the environment, Juno space probe 保护环境付出的代价,“朱诺”木星探测器
Glass-bottomed bridge, cancer risk for HRT and 120-year-old man 世界最长玻璃桥开放,荷尔蒙替代疗法增患癌风险,印度教120岁僧人
Close, but no cigar 几近成功
Pain in the neck 令人讨厌的事情或人
Chelsea doctor and surfing in Australia 切尔西队医与球队和解,澳大利亚冲浪
Clean up your act 改邪归正
In good nick 品质好、没有损坏
Crash course 速成课
You're pulling my leg! 你在愚弄我!
Until I'm blue in the face 任凭你磨破嘴皮
Test the water 试探,摸底
It's on the cards 这件事十有八九会发生
The last/final straw 忍无可忍,使人最终崩溃的一击
Brexit and Hockney's art 英国脱欧公投后进展,大卫·霍克尼艺术展
To fall at the first hurdle 跌倒在第一关
To make a mountain out of a molehill 小题大做
Cyborg beetle and the teenage brain 半机械甲虫,青少年脑部发育
Earth-like planet, Pink cockatoo dies at 83 类地行星,83岁风头鹦鹉逝世
To lie through your teeth 睁眼说瞎话
World's longest tunnel and a strange kind of race 世界最长铁路隧道,扛羊毛袋比赛
Indian state introduces 'fat tax' 印度一省拟征收“脂肪税”