CPC official highlights Sino-US biz relations

China and the United States are cooperative partners who are indispensable to each other, and both countries are major forces driving global economic growth, said a senior Communist Party of China official on Friday.

Liu Jianchao, minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks during a meeting in Beijing with Craig Allen, president of the US-China Business Council.

The meeting took place amid a series of recent gatherings of Chinese officials with foreign business executives as part of the nation's efforts to boost the confidence of foreign investors in the vast Chinese market.