China has urged the United States to immediately correct wrongdoings and stop actions damaging its rights and interests, calling on the two major countries to “follow the right path of win-win cooperation, rather than go astray toward conflict and confrontation”, said Yang Jiechi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Xinhua News Agency has reported.

Yang, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks while meeting the visiting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Oct 8, said China had "openly demonstrated its position and lodged solemn representations to the US side on the negative remarks it had made against China."

Pompeo said the United States was committed to realizing cooperation and win-win results with China, and is willing to strengthen communication with China to seek a constructive plan to tackle challenges the current bilateral relations are faced with.

Wang Yi, Chinese state councilor and foreign minister, expressed hope that Pompeo’s Beijing visit would play a positive role in supporting healthy bilateral ties.