Chinese VP meets with president of Oregon State Senate

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng meets with Rob Wagner, president of the United States' Oregon State Senate, in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)

BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with Rob Wagner, president of the United States' Oregon State Senate, on Tuesday in Beijing.

Han noted that a series of important consensuses have been reached between the two countries' leaders during phone talks held since the beginning of the year, and said that as they share broad common interests and promising cooperation prospects, China and the United States can and should become partners and friends.

China hopes the U.S. will work with it on mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win results, and to find the right way for the two major countries to get along in the new era, aiming to benefit the two sides and the world at large, Han said.

He said that Oregon has maintained friendly, cooperative relations with China for a long time. China hopes that Oregon State Senate President Wagner and his fellow senators will continue to enhance communication and exchange between the two sides, deepen people-to-people relations and play an exemplary role in promoting subnational China-U.S. cooperation, Han added.

Wagner expressed his hopes for the success of the fourth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and said that U.S.-China cooperation at the subnational level is very important, adding that Oregon has passed a bill to continue strengthening its friendly cooperation with China.

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng meets with Rob Wagner, president of the United States' Oregon State Senate, in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)