China, U.S. reach five agreements during Blinken's visit

China and the United States reached agreements on five fronts during U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Beijing.

Both sides have agreed to jointly implement the important common understandings reached by the two presidents in Bali, Indonesia, to maintain high-level interactions, to keep moving forward consultations on the guiding principles of China-U.S. relations, to continue advancing consultations through the joint working group to address specific issues in the relations and to encourage more people-to-people and educational exchanges, and had positive discussions on increasing passenger flights between the two countries.

Both sides welcomed more mutual visits by students, scholars and business people, and agreed to provide support and facilitation to this end. Blinken invited Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang to visit the U.S., and Qin expressed his readiness to make the visit at a mutually convenient time.