BEIJING - Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Yang called on US enterprises to cooperate and trade more with Chinese counterparts, as he met with two US business chiefs on Monday.

China is at a crucial stage of reform to develop a more open economy, Wang told Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, and Wendell P. Weeks, chairman and CEO of Corning Incorporated.

The vice-premier said he is hoping business exchanges can help shape a new type of major-country relations between China and the United States.