Strong China-US trade and investment links

As the Chinese and US economies are increasingly intertwined, some remarkable highlights have emerged in economic ties between the world's top two economies, experts said.

China's imports from the US outpaced its exports to the country and Chinese investment growth in the US outstripped US investment growth in China.

The renminbi is becoming more internationalized and not forced to appreciate, said Zhou Shijian, a senior researcher at the Center for US-China Relations at Tsinghua University.