Xi Jinping (center) at a picnic at the farm of Janet Rauch in 1985. (Janet Rauch/for China Daily)
First trip: April 1985
Muscatine, Iowa
As Party Secretary of Zhengding county, Hebei province
Friendly Iowan people
PresidentXi Jinping first visited the United States in 1985, not long after the establishment of Sino-U.S. diplomatic relations in 1979. He went to Muscatine, an agricultural center in the U.S. heartland, when he led a delegation to learn about farming technology. Xi showed wide interest in agricultural technologies, including pig breeding, local people recalled.
