General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping (R) meets with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 13, 2012. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping (R) meets with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 13, 2012. Xi stressed that both China and the United States should be innovative and
Xi Jinping, the new helmsman of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), on Thursday called for more "positive energy" for the China-US partnership.
He made the remarks while meeting with former US President Jimmy Carter.
Both China and the United States should be innovative and make efforts to accumulate "positive energy" to build a China-US cooperative partnership based on mutual respect and mutual benefit. They should also create a new type of bilateral ties between major powers, regardless of difficulties, said Xi, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.
"Positive energy" is a term popularly used on the Chinese cyberspace to refer to "giving an impetus to something."
Carter is in Beijing as a guest of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.
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