President Xi Jinping visited the headquarters of Microsoft on Wednesday, where he met with tech leaders and spoke about the need for an open and secure cyberspace.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with several of the world's most well-known tech names at the Microsoft headquarters, from the company's founder Bill Gates, to other tech executives from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos to Apple's Tim Cook. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella showed the president around the headquarters, where he was shown several cutting edge Microsoft technologies and the latest line of consumer products. Xi Jinping's Seattle stop offers a chance to highlight China's cooperation with U.S. technology and internet companies. In a talk with tech executives, the president said that China shared a vision of a secure and open cyberspace.

"China advocates the building of a peaceful, secure, open and cooperative cyberspace and we believe that countries should formulate internet related public policies in line with their respective national realities. We attach importance to the important role of the internet to promoting economic growth and we are implementing an internet plus policy in china with the aim of encouraging more industries to make use of the internet to achieve better development," Xi said.

The issue of cyber security has been a divisive issue between Washington and Beijing. Obama and Xi are expected to have in-depth talks about this at the White House on Thursday and Friday.