Vice Premier Wu Yi met with the newly-appointed US Special Envoy
for Strategic Economic Dialogue, Alan Holmer in Beijing Friday.
Holmer was appointed by US Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson
as Special Envoy for China and for the Strategic Economic Dialogue
in February.
Wu told Holmer China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue is a "very
important" economic cooperation mechanism that was jointly proposed
by President Hu Jintao and President Bush.
Last December, the first meeting of the Dialogue was
successfully held in Beijing, which helped to increase mutual
understanding and trust, and cement bilateral trade ties as well as
overall relations, Wu said.
The second meeting of the Dialogue will be kicked off in
Washington in May.
Wu called for both sides to make good preparation for the second
meeting, and implement the important consensus reached by the two
heads of state.
Calling US-China ties as the "most important" bilateral
relations in the world, Holmer said the Dialogue has become an
important platform to push forward bilateral ties.
He said President Bush attaches great importance to the
Dialogue. Paulson, who is the head of the US trade mission to the
Dialogue, expects to work closely with Wu to promote further
development of this mechanism, he added.
(Xinhua News Agency March 3, 2007)
