State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan on Sunday pledged for concrete
actions to build a mutually beneficial relationship between China
and Japan.
Tang made the remarks when meeting with Japanese Foreign
Minister Masahiko Komura.
China-Japan ties are facing an important opportunity for further
development, Tang said.
Both sides should hold the favorable opportunity and implement
the consensus reached by the two leaders as soon as possible, Tang
suggested.
He called for the two countries to enhance mutual political
trust, expand common interests and properly handle each other's key
concerns.
The two sides should strengthen communication and coordination
in regional cooperation in Asia, and contribute more to regional
prosperity and development, Tang said.
Komura, who was in Beijing for the first China-Japan high-level
economic dialogue and official visit to China, hailed the dialogue
and the visit as successful.
The two sides had candid exchanges of views and enhanced mutual
understanding and trust, he said.
Both sides sent positive signals to their peoples and the
international society their willingness to set up a strategic and
mutually beneficial ties, Komura said.
Japan would like to work with China to push forward more
substantial results from the bilateral cooperation in various
sectors, so to benefit the two peoples, the Japanese Foreign
Minister said.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Japanese Ambassador to
China Yuji Miyamoto attended the meeting.
The first China-Japan high-level economic dialogue was held here
Saturday. The mechanism was jointly launched by Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao and then Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe during Wen's
Japan trip in April.
(Xinhua News Agency December 3, 2007)
