On September 25 local time, President Xi Jinping held talks with President Barack Obama of the US in Washington D.C. After the talks, the two heads of state jointly met with the press.

Xi Jinping pointed out that in these two days, President Barack Obama and I have had constructive and fruitful meetings, and exchanged in-depth views on respective domestic and foreign policies, important topics in bilateral relations, and international and regional situations, and reached important consensus in a broad range of areas.

Xi Jinping introduced the specific results yielded in the meeting between the two heads of state and emphasized that after 36 years' development, China and the US have their interests converged profoundly and shoulder greater responsibilities for world peace and human progress. The two sides should and can cooperate in wider range of fields. The Chinese side is willing to work with the US side to, in the spirit of perseverance and abundance from small increments, push forward the bilateral relations for constant new progress and better benefit peoples of the two countries and the rest of the world.

Xi Jinping stressed that China is deepening reform, promoting the rule of law and strengthening Party disciplines in a comprehensive manner, so as to achieve the grand goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. China will not be stagnated in its reform and halted in its opening up. China unswervingly sticks to the path of peaceful development and commits itself to fostering friendly and cooperative relations with all countries in the world. To work with the US side to strive for a new model of major-country relationship and realize non-conflict and non-confrontation as well as mutual respect and win-win cooperation between the two sides is the priority in China's diplomatic policy.

Xi Jinping pointed out that both China and the US enjoy lots of common interests on the South China Sea issue. Both support maintaining the peace and stability in the South China Sea, support the directly concerned parties to settle disputes through peaceful negotiations and consultations, support maintaining the freedom of voyage and overflight of all countries in accordance with the international law, support managing and controlling differences through dialogue and support the full and effective implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) as well as the completion of the negotiation on the Code of Conduct in the South China on the basis of consensus at an early date. Both agreed to continuously keep constructive communication on related issues.

With regards to the issue of cyber security, Xi Jinping pointed out that as two major countries in terms of Internet affairs, China and the US should strengthen dialogue and cooperation, while confrontation and friction are not the correct choices. Corresponding departments of the two countries reached important consensus on common combat of cybercrime, and agreed to enhance coordination in case investigation and information sharing. They also agreed that neither of the two governments should be engaged in or knowingly support stealing intellectual property rights (IPR) through the Internet and that the two sides should discuss to promote the formulation of suitable code of conduct of countries in the cyberspace of the international community, and to establish high-level joint dialogue mechanism for bilateral common combat against cybercrime and related matters as well as set up hotlines for this respect.

When talking about democracy and human rights, Xi Jinping pointed out that democracy and human rights are the common pursuit of mankind, while at the same time rights of peoples in all countries to choose their own development paths at their wills should be respected. The process in which the Chinese people realizing the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in its nature is a process to realize social fairness and justice and continuously promote the development of the human rights cause. The Chinese side is willing to, on the basis of equality and mutual respect, continue to launch human rights dialogue, expand consensus, reduce differences, learn from each other and make common progress with the US side.

When answering questions on China-US relations, Xi Jinping stressed that the current world has entered into the economic globalization era of interdependency among all countries. People should abandon the old concept of zero-sum game of one losing and the other winning and harbor the new notion of peaceful development and win-win cooperation. China's sound development will be beneficial to the world as well as the US, while the sound development of the US will also be beneficial to the world and China. The common interests between China and the US outweigh significantly their divergences. I sincerely hope that China and the US can proceed from the fundamental interests of the peoples of the two sides and the world at large and strive to jointly build a new model of China-US major-country relationship. This should be an endeavor direction which the two sides stick to. The initiatives of the "Belt and Road" and the construction of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and others proposed by China are open, transparent and inclusive, which welcome the active participation of related parties including the US.

Barack Obama welcomed again President Xi Jinping's state visit to the US, and appreciated China's commitment to US-China cooperation, believing that it is beneficial not only to the two countries but also to the whole world. He said that he held fruitful meetings with President Xi Jinping, exchanged views in a candid and constructive manner on topics like economy and trade and investment, cyberspace security, the South China Sea, human rights, people-to-people and cultural exchanges as well as the implementation of the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue, the promotion of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the reconstruction of Afghanistan, coping with climate change and peacekeeping, enhanced mutual understanding and reached important consensus. The US side reiterates to stick to the one-China policy and holds that a stable, prosperous and peaceful China will play a constructive role in international affairs.