China and the U.S. have made progress at the seventh round of high-level economic and trade talks, and decided to extend the talk for two days with issues to be addressed and a win-win deal to be reached.

At this special moment, many international merchants and traders, as well as some Americans who were pro-China, seem to be uncertain still and wonder: Where is the China-U.S. relationship really going?

Today, CGTN anchor Robert Lawrence Kuhn invites Huang Ping, the Chinese Consul General in New York, to watch the coming results and the new trend of Sino-U.S. trade relations.

“Only a few thought of China as an adversary. During my multiple visits to the ten States of my consular district, I can feel local Americans' strong desire for a closer relationship and cooperation. The majority of local people want China-U.S. relations to grow because they've benefited from it,” said Huang.

Huang Ping stressed that the development of the China-U.S. relationship in the past 40 years has demonstrated that we can solve the tensions by working together, even though the two nations have so many differences.

Here are three key points that Huang stressed to the global business communities that are now worried about the ongoing China-U.S. trade tensions and negotiation results.

First, be confident. Friendship and cooperation are still the mainstay of China-U.S. relations. “In the past 40 years, China has built itself from nowhere into the second largest economy. It has been developing itself by adopting the policy of reform and opening-up, which will be the key to the future development to realizing China's dream of national rejuvenation.”

Huang said concerns and worries, like access to the market, the protection of intellectual properties and so forth, by related business communities, will be addressed through the deepening of reform and opening-up. What's more, the cake of mutual interests will become bigger based on more exchanges and cooperation.

Second, be patient. China is different in many ways. Lots of its reforms can't be completed overnight. As for business communities trading with China, the most important thing to bear in mind is that China has 1.4 billion people, which means that no matter how big the cake is (or how much capital you have), when divided by 1.4 billion, it is a very small amount. The reverse also is true. No matter how small a problem is, when multiplied by 1.4 billion, it becomes huge.

This sense helps foreign traders to understand China's situation: “Many reforms can't be done overnight; we have to be patient.”

The third piece of advice: Be determined. “We certainly have noticed the concern and what has happened in the past few years. Those are not just business communities' concerns, but also China's.

To address them is also for the sake of China's own development.” 

As Huang highlighted, it is a crucial moment, a special time, and a high time to keep the bilateral relationship growing.

Being two major powers in the world, China and the U.S. now are closely connected, and their bilateral relationship not only creates favorable conditions for two societies to win together, but also becomes much more crucial and indispensable for the peace and development of the world.

The developmental experience in the past decades demonstrates that China and the U.S. can work together and enjoy co-existence. “History will prove what is right and will remember those who make contributions to it,” Huang concluded.