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WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States on Thursday morning kicked off here a fresh round of high-level economic and trade talks.
The Chinese delegation is headed by Vice Premier Liu He, who also came as the special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping; while the U.S. team includes Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Liu, Lighthizer and Mnuchin co-chaired the formal opening at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House.
The two-day high-level talks, the seventh round since last February, came on the heels of the working-level consultations between the two sides that have started here on Tuesday.
