Vice President Xie Yuan met with U.S. State Legislative Leaders Delegation, headed by Stephen Lakis, president of State Legislative Leaders Foundation (SLLF)，on March 28, 2016. The delegation includes legislative leaders from 11 states including California, Michigan and Georgia.

Vice President Xie Yuan expressed a warm welcome to the U.S. State Legislative Leaders Delegation to visit China. He said that to implement the achievements made by President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the U.S. in 2015, and further strengthen China-U.S. sub-national exchanges and cooperation, the CPAFFC and the SLLF formally signed the agreement on the establishment of China-U.S. Sub-national Legislature Exchange Mechanism in December last year, and decided to co-host the First China-U.S. Sub-national Legislature Cooperation Forum in Hawaii in June this year. This delegation comes at an important time before the first forum. He hoped every delegation member make full use of this visit to promote cooperation between their own state and China.

President Lakis expressed his appreciation for the support of CPAFFC. He said the delegation’s visit was aimed at promoting sub-national exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in economic and trade, culture, educationl, health care and other fields. The SLLF is making every effort to prepare for the First China-US Sub-national Cooperation Forum to be held in June, and will organize more U.S. state legislative leaders delegation to China in the future .