
First trip: April 1985
Muscatine, Iowa
As Party Secretary of Zhengding county, Hebei province
Friendly Iowan people
Xi Jinping(center) at a picnic at the farm of Janet Rauch in 1985. (Photo source:China Daily)
BEIJING, Sept. 22 -- President Xi Jinping first visited the United Statesin 1985, not long after the establishment of Sino-US diplomatic relations in 1979. He went to Muscatine, an agricultural center in the US heartland, when he led a delegation to learn about farming technology. Xi showed wide interest in agricultural technologies, including pig breeding, local people recalled.
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