Representatives of the
21st Century Committee for China-Japan Friendship attend the press
conference in Beijing, capital of China, January 28, 2008. The 7th
meeting of the new 21st Century Committee for China-Japan
Friendship closed inBeijing on Monday.
Policy consultants of China and Japan agreed on Monday that the
relations between the two countries face new historic opportunities
for greater development.
Policy consultants from both countries said after the 7th
meeting of the new 21st Century Committee for China-Japan
Friendship, which closed Monday morning, that the two countries
should seize the opportunities to continuously consolidate and
expand the momentum of the development of bilateral relations.
The two-day meeting focused on how to implement the consensus
reached during Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's China visit
last month and on Chinese President Hu Jintao's upcoming trip to
Japan.
Chinese Foreign
Minister Yang Jiechi (R) meets with a representative of the new
21st Century Committee for China-Japan Friendship in Beijing,
capital of China, January 28, 2008.
Members to the meeting exchanged views in depth on the long-term
and strategic issues between the two countries, and gave advices on
the development of China-Japan relations.
Zheng Bijian, chief Chinese member of the new 21st Century
Committee for China-Japan Friendship, and his Japanese counterpart
Yotaro Kobayashi lead members of the two sides to attend the
meeting.
The new 21st Century Committee for China-Japan Friendship is a
policy consultation organization for the two governments. Its goal
is to bring together intellectuals from both sides to study
relations from a broad political, economic, cultural, scientific
and technological perspective, and make proposals to both
governments.
The committee has held six meetings since its inception in July
2003, based on the consensus of the leaders of the two
countries.
Yotaro Kobayashi, chief
Japanese member of the 21st Century Committee for China-Japan
Friendship, speaks during the press conference in Beijing, capital
of China, January 28, 2008. The 7th meeting of the new 21st Century
Committee for China-Japan Friendship closed in Beijing on
Monday.
(Xinhua News Agency January 29, 2008)
