Moment 3: Two leaders attend the G20 summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with U.S. President Barack Obama in St. Petersburg, Russia during the G20 summit on Sept. 6, 2013. [Photo / Xinhua]

Time: September 2013

Location: St. Petersburg, Russia

Memories: Three months after the meeting in the Annenberg Retreat, Xi met with Obama again in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed the progress in bilateral cooperation over those months as "fruitful" when meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama. "Since the Annenberg estate meeting, the two countries have closely collaborated with each other to implement the consensuses reached," Xi said.

“Currently, the China-U.S. relationship is maintaining a good momentum of development,” Xi said. He also introduced China's economic situation and stressed that China will maintain its reform and opening up policy which will offer more opportunities for China and U.S. cooperation.

Obama said they agreed to continue to build a new model of major-country relations based on a practical cooperation and to constructively mend differences, and added, "We welcome the peaceful rise of China."

The countries made progress on cooperation of climate change and the strengthening of military-to-military ties to ensure awareness and "avoid potential conflict and miscommunication", Obama said.