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Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie on Thursday paid a visit to the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, presenting to its library more than 200 copies of Chinese history and strategy books to boost Sino-U.S. military ties.

Visiting Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie (L) presents books to Superintendent Lt. Gen. David Huntoon during a ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, the United States, on Thursday, May 10, 2012. [Wang Lei/Xinhua]

At the book-presenting ceremony, Liang said his visit aims at implementing the important consensus reached between Chinese President Hu Jintao and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama on developing bilateral cooperative partnership, and positive results have been achieved to this effect.

Liang said his visit to the U.S. is very successful in terms of deepening mutual understanding, strengthening mutual trust, and further promoting mutual cooperation.

For his part, USMA Superintendent Lt. Gen. David Huntoon said "United States Military Academy and the People's Liberation Army have had a number of very important military-to-military exchanges for many years," and Liang's efforts "to build greater trust and mutual cooperation between the U.S. and China have been extraordinary."

Liang also spoke in Chinese with almost 30 USMA cadets who can speak mandarin and sent them gifts. Lt. Gen. David Huntoon give Liang a dress cadet helmet as a gift.

Liang's USMA visit was his last stop of the six-day visit in the U.S starting on May 4., the first by a Chinese defense minister in nine years.

He also met with his U.S. counterpart Leon Panetta, representatives of the Flying Tigers and their families, and visited the U.S. Southern Command in Miami and other U.S. military bases.

(Xinhua News Agency contributed to the story.)

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