China and Japan should take the chance to push forward the
relations on the track of long-term, healthy and stable
development, said a Chinese leader on Saturday afternoon.
Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese
People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), put forward a
five-point proposal to further improve Sino-Japanese relations in a
meeting with Nikai Toshihiro, chairman of the General Council of
the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
The proposal included strengthening the high-level exchange of
visits and political trust; expanding economic and trade
cooperation; enhancing personnel exchanges; promoting political
contact; and properly handle the sensitive issues to safeguard the
political foundation of Sino-Japanese relations.
Jia said China and Japan are important countries of Asia and the
world, and Sino-Japanese good-neighborly relations benefit the two
countries and peoples and is in conformity with the trends of the
times.
He said China would observe the principles in the three
Sino-Japanese political documents to build up strategic and
reciprocal relations to achieve the goal of peaceful existence,
reciprocal cooperation, common development and friendship
generation by generation.
(Xinhua News Agency December 9, 2007)