China's Xi visits Port of Los Angeles. Photo by Tim Rue/Bloomberg.

Xi Jinping, vice president of China, visits Port of Los Angeles. Photo by Tim Rue/Bloomberg.

“Having heard that this is an environmentally friendly, green port, this is a great thing,” Xi, 58, said yesterday at the Port of Los Angeles. “What I see here is a good foundation for U.S.-China economic and trade cooperation.”

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and California Governor Jerry Brown joined Xi at the port which, along with the neighboring Port of Long Beach, handles the highest volume of cargo arriving from China in the U.S. The port boasts of being the cleanest in the U.S. and possibly the world, based in part on a system for supplying electricity to ships that makes it unnecessary to run their own generators while docked.

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