U.S., China kick off 7th round of high-level trade talks in Washington

China and the United States on Thursday morning kicked off here a fresh round of high-level economic and trade talks.

The Chinese delegation is headed by Vice Premier Liu He, who also came as the special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping; while the U.S. team includes Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Liu, Lighthizer and Mnuchin co-chaired the formal opening at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House.

The two-day high-level talks, the seventh round since last February, came on the heels of the working-level consultations between the two sides that have started here on Tuesday.