Before Friday's meeting Trump met Xi to tour the gardens at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese Communist Party leadership compound.
Xi said he picked the location "especially to reciprocate the hospitality extended to me in 2017 at Mar-a-Lago." Xi said Trump was interested to learn about the plants in the garden including the Chinese roses. Xi said he "agreed" to gift Trump seeds for those roses.
Trump and Xi also attended a state banquet earlier during the visit.
Tech and trade have also been key themes during the talks.
Trump said before the trip that he planned to ask Xi to "open up" the Chinese economy. CEOs Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Tim Cook of Apple and Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, among others, traveled with the president to Beijing.
Trump said the business leaders joined him to "pay respects" to Xi."We asked the top 30 in the world. Every single one of them said 'yes,' and I didn't want the second or the third in the company. I wanted only the top. And they're here today to pay respects to you and to China, and they look forward to trade and doing business, and it's going to be totally reciprocal on our behalf," Trump said.
The White House said one of Trump's goals going into the summit with Xi is to secure purchasing agreements with China in the aerospace, agriculture and energy sectors and the CEOs traveled with the president to help push for that.
Before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People on Thursday, Trump called Xi a "great leader" and touted their relationship.
"Such respect for China, the job you've done. You're a great leader. I say it to everybody. You're a great leader," Trump said. "Sometimes people don't like me saying it, but I say it anyway, because it's true. I always say the truth."
"We've had a fantastic relationship. We've gotten along," Trump said. "When there were difficulties, we worked it out. I would call you, and you would call me, and whenever we had a problem -- people don't know -- whenever we had a problem, we worked it out very quickly, and we're going to have a fantastic future together."
Xi told Trump that China and the U.S. "both stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation."
"We should be partners, not rivals," he continued." We should help each other succeed and prosper together and find the right way for major countries to get along well with each other in the new era."