Chinese President Xi Jinping holds talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, who is on a state visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, May 14, 2026. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)

　　BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- In a meeting closely watched by the world, Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday agreed on a new vision of building a constructive bilateral relationship of strategic stability.

　　The new vision will provide strategic guidance for China-U.S. relations over the next three years and beyond, Xi said when holding talks in Beijing with Trump, who is on a three-day state visit to China -- the first such visit in the past nine years.

　　Xi defined the nature of "constructive strategic stability" as a positive stability with cooperation as the mainstay, a sound stability with moderate competition, a constant stability with manageable differences, and an enduring stability with promises of peace.

　　Trump said he will work with Xi to strengthen communication and cooperation, properly handle differences, and make bilateral relations better than ever before.

　　Both leaders agreed that China-U.S. relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the world today.

　　"Looking back at the course of China-U.S. relations, whether or not we could have mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation is the key to whether the relationship can advance steadily," Xi said at Thursday's welcome banquet for Trump.

　　"We must make it work, and never mess it up," Xi said, adding that both China and the United States stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation.

　　NEW IMPETUS FOR COOPERATION