Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Thursday that China hopes the United States will do more to facilitate cultural and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.

On its website, the U.S. State Department eased its travel advisory for China from level three to level two and removed a notation indicating a so-called risk of "wrongful detentions."

Mao told a regular press briefing that China believes the move is conducive to normal visits between the people of the two countries.

"We have always opposed the artificial creation of a chilling effect," she said.