China's foreign ministry on Saturday marked 25 years of US ties with a statement saying it was willing to push forward the bilateral relationship, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
"With far-sightedness, leaders of the two countries realised the establishment Sino-US diplomatic ties 25 years ago, unveiling a new chapter in Sino-US relations," ministry spokesman Kong Quan said according to Xinhua.
"Over the past 25 years, Sino-US relations have stood tests and achieved positive progress," he said.
China and the United States set up diplomatic ties on January 1, 1979, after years of tentative rapprochement.
History has proved that China and the United States, despite their differences, shoulder common responsibility and share extensive co-operative basis on some major issues concerning peace and development, Kong said.
Recently, China and the United States have co-operated on defusing the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula.
China is trying to host a second round of negotiations on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, possibly early this year.
A first round of talks - involving China, the two Koreas, the United States, Japan and Russia - ended inconclusively in Beijing in August.
Two American delegations are heading for North Korea in the hope of securing a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the country's nuclear program, and will probably be transiting in Beijing.
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