WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- The common interests between China and the United States far outweigh their differences no matter how the leadership changes in the U.S., a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday.
"Our two countries enjoy a high degree of complementarity in our economic cooperation, which has brought tangible benefits to our business communities and to our two peoples. These realities will not be changed by the (U.S. presidential) election," Zhang Xiangchen, China's deputy international trade representative with the Ministry of Commerce told Xinhua at a press briefing for the 27th Session of the China-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) held here.
Zhang said he felt strongly that business communities on the both sides have a strong desire to deepen economic cooperation between the two countries and this will not be changed either, after attending the JCCT and other trade events over the past several days.
"No matter how the leadership changes in the United States, the shared interests of our two countries far outweigh our differences," he said, noting that bilateral trade between China and the U.S. reached 558.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2015, an increase of 228 times from 1979 when the two countries established diplomatic relations.
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