Mr Wen appeared emotional as he bowed three times to the assembled delegates and once to his colleagues on the stage behind him in theGreatHallofthePeople.
"The president is firmly committed to building a relationship of growing strength, " Lew said at the meeting in theGreatHallofthePeople, the seat of China's ceremonial legislature in Beijing.
Exactly who will become members ofthe next PSC we will only know when they walk onto the stage oftheGreatHallofthePeople at the closing ofthe Party Congress.
Hundreds of soldiers, police and plainclothes security officer equipped with fire extinguishers and anti-explosive blankets ringed theGreatHallofthePeople and the adjacent Tiananmen Square for the opening session.
"The president is firmly committed to building a relationship of growing strength, " Lew told Xi during their meeting at theGreatHallofthePeople, the seat of China's ceremonial legislature in central Beijing.