On April 25th, Vice President Song Jingwu met with the delegation led by Chairman Okamoto Tamotsu of Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR), Japan who was to attend Local Cooperation Panel of the 2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the invitation of the CPAFFC.
Vice President Song Jingwu said that with the joint efforts by the government and other sectors of society in the two countries, China-Japan relations have returned to normal track with momentum of active new developments. The CPAFFC and the CLAIR, together with our Korean counterpart, have co-hosted the China-Japan-Korea Friendship Cities Conference for more than two decades in a row. During the rock bottom of the bilateral relations, the CLAIR continued facilitating China-Japan local exchanges and cooperation and made its contributions to bring the bilateral relations back to normal track. Today, the Local Cooperation Panel of the 2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation has been successfully co-hosted by the CPAFFC and Beijing Municipal Government. With China-Japan relations facing opportunities of further improvements, the CPAFF, as Chinese local governments’ major channel for international exchanges, is willing to strengthen coordination with the CLAIR to promote the exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and Japanese local governments and play an active role in the long term steady developments of China-Japan relations.
Chairman Okamoto congratulated the CPAFFC on the success of the Local Cooperation Panel and said that local exchanges and cooperation serve as an important foundation of Japan-China relations, the CLAIR will maintain its close cooperation with the CPAFFC and further promote Japan-China local exchanges and make its due efforts to the further improvement and development of Japan-China relations.
Photographed by Pan Lin
