Xi to pay first state visit to U.S.

BEIJING, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday held phone talks with his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, and accepted the latter’s invitation to pay a state visit to the United States in September.

The world’s two biggest economies have been building a new type of major-country relationship and have maintained good development momentum in bilateral ties despite occasional disputes and frictions, reports Xinhua.