Xi's APEC attendance, state visits chart new course for China's major-country diplomacy in new era: FM

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, attends a grand welcome ceremony held by Bounnhang Vorachit, general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and president of Laos, before their talks in Vientiane, Laos, Nov. 13, 2017. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)