Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Chinese People's Liberation Army Xiong Guangkai held a security consultation in Beijing Thursday with Moriya Takemasa, permanent vice minister of Defense Agency of Japan.  

This is the sixth security consultation between the Chinese Defense Ministry and the Defense Agency of Japan.

The two sides exchanged views in depth on issues of shared concern including international and regional security situation, defense policy, bilateral relations and Sino-Japanese defense exchanges.

(Xinhua News Agency March 25, 2005)