Iowa Governor Terry Branstad renewed his decades-long friendship with President Xi Jinping when they met in Beijing on Monday, for the fifth time.
Calling Xi “my old friend” and shaking his hand warmly, the 67-year-old said it is exciting to celebrate Iowa’s 30 years of being a sister state with Hebei province and to see the great advance in Iowa’s agricultural cooperation with China.
Iowa and Hebei province became sisters in 1983, and in 1985 Xi, then a county-level government head in the province, visited Iowa for agricultural projects and met Branstad for the first time.
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