China, US to cooperate in space exploration, high-speed rail construction

• Source: Xinhua
• [13:11 November 17 2009]
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Chinese President Hu Jintao met  with visiting US President Barack Obama on Tuesday. Both  leaders agreed to start cooperation in new fields of space  exploration and high-speed railway construction.   

Hu said both leaders agreed to deepen cooperation between China and the United States on the basis of mutual benefits in areas  such as anti-terrorism, law enforcement, science and technology,  agriculture, health care and civil aviation.   

The two leaders also initiated to start cooperation in new  areas like space exploration and high-speed railway infrastructure construction, and keep promoting greater development in military  relations.  

Obama and Hu also discussed to expand cultural exchanges  between the two nations, especially youth exchanges, and supported both sides to set up a cultural exchange mechanism and to  strengthen cooperation on dispatching more students to each other  countries.   

Obama is paying a four-day visit to China, his maiden trip to  China since taking office in January.