Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday put forward a four-point proposal on the development of a new model of major-country relationship between China and the United States.

China and the United States should read each other's strategic intentions correctly, further advance win-win cooperation, manage their differences properly and effectively to seek more common ground, and boost people-to-people exchanges, Xi said during a speech in the U.S. West Coast city of Seattle.

Xi kicked off his first state visit to the United States Tuesday, a landmark trip aimed at building up trust and stepping up cooperation between the world's two biggest economies.