(AP Photo)
(AP Photo)
2012年2月15日,当时的中国副主席习近平和当时的州长泰里·布兰斯塔德在艾欧瓦州迪莫因的艾欧瓦州议会厅举杯庆祝 。
布兰斯塔德和习近平于1984年首次见面,那时习近平作为贸易代表团的一员访问了艾欧瓦州。
习近平还参观了艾欧瓦州马斯卡廷的Roger和Sarah Lande的家,在那里他开玩笑说他在1985年首次访问马斯卡廷时收到的礼物是爆米花。(AP Photo)
Chinese then-Vice-President Xi Jinping and then- Governor Terry Branstad raise a toast at the Iowa Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa #OnThisDay 15 February 2012. Branstad and Xi first met in 1984 when Xi visited Iowa as part of a trade delegation.
Xi Jinping also visited the home of Roger and Sarah Lande in Muscatine, Iowa, where he joked about receiving a gift of popcorn during his first visit to Muscatine in 1985.