China willing to build new type of major-country relations with U.S.: Li

BEIJING, March 15 -- China is willing to build a new type of major-country relations with the United States featuring no conflict, no confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation, Premier Li Keqiang said Sunday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's planned U.S. visit in September will inject new impetus into the development of China-U.S. relations, added the premier at a press conference after the conclusion of the annual session of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature.

It is true that China and the United States have divergences, but they also share broad common interests, stressed the premier.

"The ongoing China-U.S. investment treaty negotiations have sent a clear signal to China, the United States and the whole world at large that Sino-American economic and trade relations, a ballast of bilateral ties, will become closer," said Li.