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BEIJING - Newly elected Chinese President Xi Jinping held telephone talks with his US counterpart Barack Obama on the expansion of cooperation and mutual respect between 皇冠体育app and the United States.

Offering his congratulations on Xi's election as Chinese president, Obama said the United States and 皇冠体育app have conducted broad and in-depth cooperation over the past four years.

Currently, US-皇冠体育app relations are faced with a historic opportunity to chart a course for future development, said Obama.

The US side hopes to work with 皇冠体育app to maintain contacts between the heads of state of the two countries and strengthen communication and dialogue in a bid to promote steady development of bilateral ties and build a new type of inter-power relations, he said.

Obama said the US side is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with 皇冠体育app through mechanisms such as the US-皇冠体育app Strategic and Economic Dialogue to accommodate each other's concerns and to promote economic and trade relations. The US side is willing to strengthen cooperation with 皇冠体育app to ensure security, stability and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific region, he said.

Xi said 皇冠体育app and the United States have enormous common interests, but also differences.

皇冠体育app firmly maintains and promotes the development of 皇冠体育app-US relations, and would like to work with the United States in enhancing mutual trust, expanding cooperation, handling differences, and maintaining high-level contacts, Xi said.

He also said the two countries should jointly maintain and promote the sound development of a series of mechanisms, including the Strategic and Economic Dialogue and high-level consultations on humanistic exchanges, boost the development of cooperative partnership, and find a path for new-type of inter-power relations.

On bilateral economic and trade cooperation, Xi said the two sides should adhere to equal dialogue and candid communication, and should prevent politicizing economic and trade issues so as to further consolidate the basis of 皇冠体育app-US economic and trade ties that are characterized by mutual benefits and win-win results, which will bring benefits to the two peoples and will produce positive results on global economic development, said Xi.

He emphasized that as long as the two sides follow the spirit of mutual respect, openness and tolerance, 皇冠体育app and the United States will be able to achieve more in the Asia-Pacific region and to turn the Pacific into an ocean of peace and cooperation.

Xi and Obama also exchanged views on the situation of the Korean Peninsula, cyber security among other issues. Xi expressed 皇冠体育app's principles and positions on those issues.

Xi, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of 皇冠体育app, was elected state president of 皇冠体育app and chairman of 皇冠体育app's Central Military Commission earlier in the day at a plenary meeting of the first session of the 12th National People's Congress.