Proclaiming that the relationship between China and the US is "headed into a new historic stage," Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's People's Congress met yesterday with US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in the highly anticipated visit by the top Chinese legislator.

Wu, invited by Pelosi to Washington DC, is the first top legislator to visit the US in the last two decades and the most senior official to visit the US since US President Barack Obama's new administration.

In his speech yesterday, Wu hailed the US-China relationship as one of the most dynamic and promising in the world, adding that his US trip will inject new impetus to their growing ties.