A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Friday afternoon met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns to further promote bilateral ties.

Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the CPC's Central Committee, said China-U.S. relations have entered a new phase of jointly building a cooperative partnership based on mutual benefit and mutual respect.

Political parties from the two countries will continue to strengthen dialogue and communication and candidly exchange views on overall, strategic and long-term issues that are of great importance for the development of bilateral ties, in a bid to further enhance political mutual trust and expand mutually beneficial cooperation.

For his part, Burns said the United States attaches great importance to developing its relations with China based on mutual respect and benefit, which serves common interests of the United States and the world at large.

He spoke positively of the high-level dialogue between the two countries' political parties, saying that such a communication channel would play an important role in the long-term healthy and stable development of U.S.-China ties.

Also on Friday, Wang exchanged views with Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, on such issues as party-to-party communication and joint efforts to deepen dialogue and exchanges between political parties of the two countries.

Wang is leading a CPC delegation to the fourth high-level dialogue between the CPC and the Democratic and Republican parties, which started here on Thursday.