BEJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang held a phone conversation on Friday with U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew over issues such as China-U.S. economic relations and the upcoming Group of 20 summit in Turkey's Antalya.

It was the first such conversation since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the establishment of a mechanism of regular phone conversation on economic affairs between the two countries during his September state visit to the United States.