Full Text: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi's remarks to conference on China-US relations by video link

BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Wednesday evening delivered a video speech to a conference held in the United States on China-US Relations. The full text of his speech is as following:

Dr. Kissinger,

General Scowcroft,

Ambassador Solomon,

Ambassador Roy,

Chairman Walker,

Ambassador Zhang Yesui,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Dear Friends,

It is so good to see you through this video link. Modern technologies have brought us close to each other despite the vast distance between Beijing and Washington.

I am honored to attend this conference on China-US relations hosted by the United States Institute of Peace, the Richard Nixon Foundation and the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States to mark the 40th anniversary of President Nixon's visit to China and the issuance of the Shanghai Communique. It is so nice to be in your midst shortly after we saw each other during Vice President Xi Jinping's recent visit to the United States. I wish to express my heartfelt appreciation to you for your abiding commitment and long years of hard work to build up US-China relations.