This combination of pictures created on Friday shows China's President Xi Jinping in Macau on Dec.19, 2024 and US President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, DC on Nov.13, 2024. AFP-Yonhap
This combination of pictures created on Friday shows China's President Xi Jinping in Macau on Dec.19, 2024 and US President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, DC on Nov.13, 2024. AFP-Yonhap

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday he hopes for a "good start" to relations with the United States in a phone call with president-elect Donald Trump, state media reported.

"We both attach great importance to mutual interaction (and) hope that China-US relations will have a good start in the new term of the US president", Xi said according to CCTV.