Chinese Vice President visits farming town and attends state dinner in Iowa

AP TELEVISION Muscatine, Iowa - 15 February 2012 1. Zoom in on convoy of the Chinese Vice President, Xi Jinping, arriving in Muscatine 2. Mid of Xi walking up to house 3. Various of Xi being given greeted and given flowers 4. Pull out to wide of house 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Eleanor Dvorchak, who Xi stayed with during his visit in 1985: "I'm really touched by the whole event, that he would take the time out, as important as he is. I mean it's more than just the hour he spent here, it's the getting here and the leaving, all that. I'm just so impressed with him willing to give us the time. He is such a people person." 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Hoopes, whose farm Xi visited during his visit in 1985: "I've never been around anyone who worked an audience like he did, and in view of the fact that it was a two language situation, he worked it as sincere as my first impression of ever having heard him talk." 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Vince Lawson, who managed the county agriculture station during Xi's 1985 visit: "You get the impression that he is very sincere when he says 'we are friends'. I grew up in a culture that did not always feel that way, and I think that was the wrong way to feel at that time, I think now is the time for us to be mutually respectful and open, and let's do business together to benefit both of us." POOL Des Moines, Iowa - 15 February 2012 8. Wide of dinner honouring Xi 9. Mid of Iowa Governor Terry Branstad welcoming Xi to the stage 10. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Xi Jinping, Chinese Vice President: (overlaid with various shots of Xi speaking) "I'm visiting the United States to help implement the important consensus that has been reached between President Hu Jintao and President Obama, and I'm here to build the China-US cooperative partnership based on mutual respect and mutual benefit. And I want to engage with a broad cross-section of American society to help deepen the friendship between Chinese and American people." 11. Wide tilt down of hall 12. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Xi Jinping, Chinese Vice President: "According to the traditional Chinese calendar, this year there will be two springs, and we believe that when a year has two springs, it will be a year of harvest. I hope through the joint efforts of both sides, the tree of friendship between China and the United States will be like the oak trees in your state, and grow and bear rich fruit, and benefit not only this generation but future generations as well." 13. Wide of hall 14. Various of Xi and Branstad toasting with glasses of wine 15. Xi leaving the stage 16. Various of pro-Tibetan demonstrations outside the dinner venue ++PART MUTE++ STORYLINE The Chinese Vice President, Xi Jinping, continued his state visit to the US on Wednesday, spending the day in Iowa, a small rural farming state not normally known for hosting major heads of state. Muscatine, a farming town with a population of 22-thousand, welcomed back the man likely to become China's next leader. Nearly 27 years ago, Xi was the head of a Chinese feed cooperative in Hebei Province, a middle level bureaucrat in the Chinese provincial government, when he visited the town on an agricultural fact-finding mission. Xi later attended a state dinner in the state capital Des Moines, hosted by Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and other officials. Branstad was two years into his first term as governor in 1985 when he met Xi, who was then a rising communist party leader from an agricultural province in northern China. Both were in their 30s. When they met again in Beijing in 2011, Branstad had returned to the governor's office after a decade out of politics, and Xi had ascended to vice president. He's expected to become China's top leader next year. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/0f74d135812082814e62872610e6a4fc Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork