BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States will hold their fourth round of strategic dialogue in Washington from June 20 to 21, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced here Tuesday.

    Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte will co-chair the dialogue, Qin said.

    This dialogue mechanism, which is built in accordance with the consensus reached by Chinese and U.S. state leaders, is an important platform for the two countries to communicate on strategic and political level, the spokesman said.

    He said both sides will have an in-depth exchange of views on major issues concerning China-U.S. relations on the basis of previous three rounds of dialogue.