Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated Donald Trump on becoming president-elect of the United States, and said he hoped they could work together to boost China-U.S. relations so as to better benefit peoples around the world.

Republican presidential nominee Trump, 70, won the November 8 presidential election in the United States and is set to succeed Democratic Barack Obama as the next U.S. president.

In his congratulatory message, Xi said that while China is the world's largest developing country and the United States the largest developed power, both, as the world's top economies, bear the special responsibility of maintaining world peace and stability and boosting global development and prosperity, and share extensive interests.

To develop a long-term, healthy and stable China-U.S. relationship is in line with the fundamental interests of the peoples of the two countries as well as the general expectations of the global community, Xi said.

"I highly value the relations between China and the United States, and I am looking forward to working together with you to expand China-U.S. cooperation in every field, at the bilateral, regional and global levels, on the basis of the principles of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation, with differences controlled in a constructive manner, so as to push China-U.S. relations further forward from a new starting point, better benefiting the peoples of the two countries and other countries," Xi said.

At the same time, Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao sent a message to Mike Pence, congratulating him on becoming the U.S. vice president-elect.

(Xinhua News Agency November 9, 2016)