Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger before delivering a speech during a welcome banquet jointly hosted by Washington State government and friendly communities in Seattle, the United States, Sept 22, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua]

Visit to the US

Sept 22-25

President Xi Jinping said that China will keep to the path of peaceful development at a welcome banquet jointly hosted by Washington State government and friendly communities in Seattle.

An important lesson history teaches us is that peaceful development is the right path, while any attempt to seek domination or hegemony through force is against the historical tide and doomed to failure. China's defense policy is defensive in nature and its military strategy features active defense.

He reiterated that no matter how developed it could become, China will never seek hegemony or engage in expansion. China is ready to work with other countries to build a new type of international relations with win-win cooperation at its core, so as to jointly open up a new vista of common development and shared security.

China and the US have issued the US-China Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change, in which China pledged 20 billion yuan ($3.1 billion) in support of a South-South climate cooperation fund to help other developing countries combat climate change.