China and United States announced on Tuesday that both countries are committed to patch up their differences over cybersecurity.

The countries have also made progress on implementing their recent agreements, including an anti-hacking accord signed in September last year. Cyber security has been a prominent point of contention between U.S. and Beijing.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Suzanne Spaulding held talks with Chinese officials in Beijing. "We look forward to discussing the commitments we made with regards to not engaging in IP theft of trade secrets and confidential business information," Spaulding said.

She also underscored the importance of the September agreement, which is a major milestone between the two countries after China backed out of a working group in 2014.

U.S. ambassador to China, Max Baucus, said that both countries can work on the issues to reach common grounds and added that the talks will lead to higher trust between the two nations. Baucus also said that it is important to ensure the proper implementation of the programs agreed upon by the two presidents.

Chinese Minister of Public Security Guo Shengku said, "We want to bring the discussions from policies on paper to actual implementation." He also stated that both the countries will continue to collaborate on cyber issues.

USA counts China, Iran and Russia as the most active countries trying to hack into its systems. However, the countries are now making progress towards reconciliation.

The current discussions mark the second stage of dialogue between the countries. The first session was conducted in December last year, and since then authorities from both states have jointly worked towards solving a child pornography case.

TagsMax Baucus, Suzanne Spaulding, Guo Shengku, cybersecurity, china, US