BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Qiang said China-Japan relations are at a crucial stage of improvement and development during a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya on Wednesday in Beijing.
China is willing to work with Japan to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, promote the sustainable and healthy development of bilateral relations, and achieve new results in pragmatic cooperation, Li said. Iwaya at the Great Hall of the People. in the Chinese capital.
Calling China and Japan “close neighbors who cannot distance themselves from each other,” Li said the two countries are solemnly committed to being cooperative partners rather than threats to each other. the other.
“We hope that Japan will work with China, uphold the principles set out in the four Sino-Japanese political documents, face history and look to the future, constructively handle differences and disputes, and take care of China’s overall situation -Relations with Japan,” Li said.
He called on the two sides to expand economic and trade relations, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and further strengthen people-to-people exchanges.
Iwaya said Japan is willing to make joint efforts with China to strengthen exchanges at all levels, especially people-to-people exchanges, promote mutually beneficial cooperation and improve public opinion towards each other, comprehensively advance mutually beneficial strategic relationships and build constructive relationships. and stable relations between Japan and China.
