Beijing, Nov. 17 : China and the United States have both agreed to start cooperation in new fields of space exploration and high-speed railway construction.

Revealing this at a joint press conference in the Great Hall of the People here this afternoon, Presidents Hu Jintao and Barack Obama also said that they had agreed to deepen cooperation on the basis of mutual benefits in areas such as anti-terrorism, law enforcement, science and technology, agriculture, health care and civil aviation.

The two leaders also promised to keep promoting greater development of military relations.

Obama and Hu also discussed to expand cultural exchanges between the two nations, especially youth exchanges, and supported both sides to set up a cultural exchange mechanism and to strengthen cooperation on dispatching more students to each other countries.

Obama is paying a four-day visit to China, his maiden trip to China since taking office in January. (ANI)