China hopes US President Joe Biden’s administration will give a boost to US-China relations.

“I think after this very difficult and extraordinary time, both the Chinese an American people deserve a better future,” Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China Hua Chunying said.

Chunin added that the two countries need to relaunch cooperation in several areas and particularly welcomed the new administration’s decision to remain in the World Health Organization and return to the Paris Agreement on climate change.

“Over the past few years, the Trump administration, especially Pompeo, has buried too many mines in Sino-U.S. relations that need to be eliminated, burned too many bridges that need to be rebuilt and wrecked too many roads that need to be repaired,” Hua said.