A photograph made available by The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands on June 6, 2013, shows the new Sunnylands Center, designed by Fred Fisher and Partners, Rancho Mirage, Calif, USA, on Nov 14, 2011. US President Barack Obama will meet with China's President Xi Jinping on June 7-8, 2013, at Sunnylands. It will be their first meeting since Xi Jinping became Chinese president. [Photo/CFP]

The US side hopes to work with China to maintain contact between the heads of state of the two countries and strengthen communication and dialogue in a bid to promote steady development of bilateral ties and build a new type of inter-power relations, he said.

Xi said that China firmly maintains and promotes the development of China-US relations, and would like to work with the United States in enhancing mutual trust, expanding cooperation, handling differences, and maintaining high-level contacts.

He also said the two countries should jointly maintain and promote the sound development of a series of mechanisms, including the Strategic and Economic Dialogue and high-level consultations on humanistic exchanges, boost the development of cooperative partnership, and find a path for new-type of inter-power relations.

Xi is on the final leg of his four-nation Americas trip, which has already taken him to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico.

Xi's visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico have given a strong boost to the all-round and in-depth development of relations between China and the three countries.