国内英语资讯:Spotlight: China, U.S. conclude social, people-to-people talks with substantial results_时事

国内英语资讯:Spotlight: China, U.S. conclude social, people-to-people talks with substantial results

Local-level exchanges cover a wide range of areas, including education, science and technology, environmental protection, as well as culture and healthcare.

Both countries also agreed to team up to beef up health care and safety in their respective countries and the world at large.

Both will take into account the proposals of the Belt and Road Initiative to deepen cooperation for safety, progress and innovation in health matters and commit themselves to building a community of shared destiny where health matters are concerned.

The Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by Xi in 2013, comprises the overland Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, which are reviving and expanding ancient silk trade routes for greater connectivity and trade between Asia, Europe and Africa.

China and the U.S. have agreed to launch cooperative programs to prevent and control such major communicable diseases as AIDS, promote exchanges and dialogue between health personnel at various levels, and boost health research on such non-infectious diseases as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases as well as cancer.

They also agreed to help establish a public health system in African countries in the post-Ebola era, deepening their cooperation to train health personnel in Africa and strengthening the continent's ability to prevent and control diseases. The two countries will jointly carry out public health programs, including vaccinations against hepatitis B for newborns in Sierra Leone.