A senior Party official Wednesday said the successful exchange
of visits between leaders of China and Japan would definitely
promote bilateral friendship in a stable way.
Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said this when
meeting with a delegation from Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
(LDP), headed by chairman of the LDP General Council Niwa Yuya.
Reviewing contributions that leaders of the two countries' elder
generations had made for bilateral relations, Wang said he
appreciated efforts Niwa Yuya had made to cement China-Japan
friendship.
Niwa Yuya said Japan is ready to enhance mutually beneficial
cooperation with China in areas of environmental protection and
public health, in a bid to benefit the two peoples and the
region.
The two sides also discussed the regional situation and the
Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an ice-breaking visit to
China in October last year, making deadlocked political ties begin
to warm.
Premier Wen Jiabao is scheduled to visit Japan this April.
(Xinhua News Agency March 1, 2007)
