Xi Jinping (center), then Party secretary of Zhengding County Party Committee, CPC, attends a party during his visit to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1985. Photos: CCTV

Xi Jinping (fourth from left) visits a farm in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1985, as a part of a delegation to learn about American agriculture.

Xi Jinping (second from right), then Party secretary of Fuzhou Party Committee, CPC, meets with Elizabeth Johnson Gardner, a 76-year-old widow whose husband's last wish had been to visit Fuzhou's Guling, where he had spent his childhood, in 1992.

Xi Jinping (right), then Party secretary of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, CPC, visits Jon Corzine, then Governor of New Jersey, in Trenton, New Jersey, in May, 2006.

Xi Jinping, then China's vice president, talks with residents in the home of Roger and Sarah Lande in Muscatine, Iowa, February 15, 2012.

Xi Jinping (2nd right), then China’s vice president, receives signed jerseys from NBA star “Magic” Johnson and British football star David Beckham after attending an NBA game at the Staple Center in Los Angeles, California, on February 17, 2012.

Xi Jinping, China’s president, talks with US president Barack Obama during a walk at the Annenberg Retreat, California on June 8, 2013.