Country's leader notes ongoing commitment to education, pledges further cooperation in science, technology

President Xi Jinping called for more people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States on Monday as he received visiting Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust for the second time in seven years.

Calling such exchanges a key pillar of the Sino-US relationship in the new era, Xi said China makes education a priority and attaches great importance to exchanges and cooperation with the US in the education, science and technology sectors.