BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) — Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met with Yohei Kono, president of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade (JAPIT), in Beijing on Thursday.
Noting that this yr marks the forty fifth anniversary of the signing of the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Wang, additionally a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, stated that the bilateral relations are at a brand new essential juncture.
Wang stated that there’s a saying in China that requires upholding elementary ideas and breaking new floor.
For China-Japan relations, upholding elementary ideas means adhering to the ideas set out within the 4 political paperwork between China and Japan, consolidating the political basis for the sound improvement of bilateral relations, taking historical past as a mirror, wanting into the longer term, and sticking to the trail of peaceable improvement, stated Wang.
To break new floor is to construct bilateral relations that meet the necessities of the brand new period primarily based on elementary ideas, stay undisturbed by exterior distractions, implement the political consensus that China and Japan are cooperative companions reasonably than threats to one another, and collectively safeguard the hard-won peace and stability in Asia, he stated.
Wang expressed the hope that Kono and the JAPIT will strengthen confidence in cooperation, oppose “decoupling economies or severing supply chains,” and make new contributions to the advance and improvement of China-Japan relations.
Kono stated that Japan-China relations have come a good distance and cooperation has introduced advantages to either side. The enterprise neighborhood doesn’t agree with the politicization of financial points, and “decoupling economies or severing supply chains” is within the pursuits of nobody.
He hailed China’s improvement momentum and vitality, saying the 2 sides ought to make joint efforts to enhance and promote Japan-China relations and cooperation in Asia.