On the afternoon of March 23, 2025, Premier Li Qiang of the State Council met with U.S. Senator Steve Daines and some American business people, who are in China to attend the China Development Forum 2025, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Li Qiang said that currently, the development of China-U.S. relations has reached a new critical juncture. In January this year, President Xi Jinping emphasized in a phone call with President Donald Trump that China and the United States have extensive common interests and broad space of cooperation, and can become partners and friends, contribute to each other's success, and advance shared prosperity for the good of the two countries and the whole world. History has proven that both China and the United States stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation. Both sides should choose dialogue rather than confrontation, and choose win-win cooperation instead of a zero-sum game. Li Qiang expressed the hope that the United States will move further with China in the same direction, engage in candid communication and build trust and dispel misgivings in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, deepen practical cooperation, and make joint efforts to promote the stable, sound and sustainable development of China-U.S. relations.

Li Qiang pointed out that economic and trade cooperation is an important foundation of China-U.S. relations. Over the past few decades, the fruitful economic and trade cooperation achieved between China and the United States is the result of joint efforts of both sides and should be cherished. The more difficulties China-U.S. relations face, the more important it is to safeguard and develop China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation, in a bid to continue injecting stability into bilateral relations. Trade wars produce no winners. No country can achieve development and prosperity through imposing tariffs, but only through openness and cooperation. Li Qiang called on the two sides to solve problems such as trade imbalance by making the pie of cooperation bigger and creating more incremental benefits. China always welcomes companies from all over the world, including the United States, to share development opportunities in China, and will actively address their legitimate demands, treat domestic and foreign-funded companies as equals, and continue to foster a sound business environment.

People from the U.S. side said that great changes have taken place in China in recent decades. U.S. companies actively participate in and support China's development, and are willing to continue investing in China, and strengthen dialogue and cooperation to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results and strive to promote the sustained development of bilateral relations.

Wu Zhenglong attended the meeting.