The APEC Leaders Meeting is taking place in San Francisco, California. 

It's a city Xi Jinping visited long before he was president, back in 1985. Most of that trip, however, was spent in Iowa, talking about agriculture and forging personal ties. 

CGTN's Dan Williams brings us back to that time, and even before.

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Source: CGTN