On October 25, 2023, Vice President Han Zheng met with Governor of the U.S. State of California Gavin Newsom in Beijing.

Han Zheng said that China-U.S. relations are the most important bilateral relations in the world. Despite some ups and downs, cooperation has always been the mainstream, and bilateral relations have recently begun to stabilize. The Chinese and U.S. governments and people from all walks of life and localities should strengthen communication, exchanges, and cooperation to jointly promote the sound and steady development of China-U.S. relations. The cooperation between Shanghai or some other Chinese cities and California is the paradigm of sub-national exchanges between China and the United States, which has huge potential for future development. He expressed the hope that Gavin Newsom's visit this time will inject positive energy into promoting bilateral exchanges and cooperation and improving China-U.S. relations.

Gavin Newsom said that China's development, especially in the field of new energy, is impressive. U.S.-China cooperation is not a zero-sum game, and California has long maintained sound cooperation with China. Gavin Newsom expressed his willingness to take this visit as an opportunity to further promote closer exchanges and cooperation between California and China in such fields as economy, trade, climate change, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges, so as to bring more benefits to the two peoples.