China has received an invitation from the United States to join US President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace for Gaza", Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday.

Guo did not specify whether Beijing would accept the invitation.

The board was originally conceived to oversee the rebuilding of war-torn Gaza, but the charter does not appear to limit its role to the occupied Palestinian territory.

Washington has asked various leaders to sit on the board, chaired by Trump, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hungarian premier Viktor Orban and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Guo said Sino-US relations had achieved overall stability in the past year despite a trade war that saw both countries impose tit-for-tat tariffs on each others' products.

"Over the past year, China-US relations have experienced ups and downs but maintained overall dynamic stability," Guo said.

"Co-operation between China and the US benefits both sides while confrontation harms both," he added. (Xinhua/AFP)