US business community hoped to further promote China-U.S. common interests: Chinese VP

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US business community hoped to further promote China-U.S. common interests: Chinese VP

2025-05-16 19:42 Last Updated At：22:08

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on Friday expressed hope that the business community of the United States will play a greater role in promoting bilateral relations and the common interests of both countries.

Han made the remarks when meeting with Invesco Chairman Richard Wagoner in Beijing, saying that China and the United States share extensive common interests and have ample room for cooperation.

The economic and trade talks between the two countries have recently made substantial progress, Han said, adding that the two countries should properly resolve differences and frictions in economic and trade cooperation through equal dialog.

He said China will actively draw on the development experience of the international capital market and accelerate the reform of its capital market that suits China's national conditions.

As a long-term participant in China's capital market, Invesco is welcome to continue to strengthen cooperation with China, Han added.

Hailing China's tremendous development achievement, Wagoner said Invesco and the U.S. business community were delighted to see the substantial progress made at the U.S.-China economic and trade talks, and pledged to continue exploring the Chinese market and contribute to U.S.-China economic and trade cooperation.

China launches Shenzhou-23 manned spaceship

China's Shenzhou-23 crewed spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the country's northwest on Sunday, sending three astronauts to its orbiting space station.

The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, lifted off from the launch site at 23:08 Beijing Time (15:08 GMT).

The crew members consist of mission commander Zhu Yangzhu, and fellow astronauts Zhang Zhiyuan and Lai Ka-ying, who is also the first astronaut from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

In another notable first, one of the crew members is set to undertake a year-long stay aboard the space station, double the usual duration of previous Shenzhou missions.

After entering orbit, the Shenzhou-23 spaceship will perform a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the radial port of the space station core module Tianhe, forming a combination of three modules and three spacecraft.

Shenzhou-23 marks the 40th flight of China's manned spaceflight program and the seventh manned flight mission since the Tiangong space station entered its application and development phase in late 2022.