Vice President Zeng Qinghong on Wednesday called for joint
efforts to promote the long-term healthy and stable development of
China-Japan relations.
Zeng made the remarks in a meeting with Hiromu Nonaka, former
secretary-general of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party.
Zeng hailed the current Sino-Japanese relations, noting that
cooperation between the two countries has made progress in various
fields as the two countries maintain high-level contact, and
celebrate the 35th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic
relationship this year.
He said the Chinese government attaches great importance to
China-Japan relations.
He said China-Japan relations face unprecedented opportunities
and challenges. Zeng expressed the hope that the two sides would
act in accordance with the consensus reached between the leaders of
the two countries on building strategic and reciprocal relations
and take positive measures to overcome difficulties on the way
ahead, so as to push the development of long-term healthy and
stable relations between the two countries.
Hiromu Nonaka said that bilateral strategic and reciprocal
relationship would have broad prospect and a promising future, as
it is based on the friendly cooperation and exchanges in the past
35 years since the two countries forged diplomatic ties.
He vowed to contribute to promoting Sino-Japanese strategic and
reciprocal relations.
(Xinhua News Agency December 13, 2007)
