China and the United States held the first high-level dialogue between their main political parties in Beijing Wednesday.

Senior Chinese officials and representatives of a delegation of the U.S. Democratic and Republican parties took part.

Addressing the dialogue, Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said the political parties and statesmen of China and the United States should transcend differences of ideology, social systems and cultural traditions and abandon prejudice, so as to continuously strengthen strategic mutual trust and promote the healthy, stable, and long-term development of bilateral ties.

To build a positive, cooperative and comprehensive China-U.S. relationship for the 21st century, it was important for both sides to deal with bilateral ties from a strategic and long-term perspective, respect each other's roads of development, take each other's core interests and major concerns into consideration and avoid repeated disturbances and harm to cooperation, said Wang.

Wang also introduced China's party system, the CPC's governance theory and expounded China's position on China-U.S. relations and related international affairs.

(Xinhua News Agency March 31, 2010)