Mr. Song Jingwu, vice president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), met in Beijing with Mr. TASSO TAKUYA, governor of Iwate –ken, Japan, and his delegation on April 25. Mme. Zhu Dan, deputy director-general of Department of Japanese Affairs of CPAFFC, Mr. Li Jiming, director general of Foreign Affairs Office of Yunnan Provincial People’s Government, Mme. Zhou Hong, president of Yunnan People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, attended the meeting.
Vice President Song Jingwu extended welcome to Governor TASSO TAKUYA for paying special visit in Beijing to attend Local Government Sub-forum of the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). He said, although the Sino-Japanese relations confronted with difficulties, the two countries have been developing the exchanges and cooperation between the local governments, which boosted the improvement of the bilateral ties. The current Sino-Japanese relations have returned to the normal track with showing positive signs, which are inseparable from the active efforts of the local governments of the two countries including Iwate-ken. The Belt and Road Initiative provided new opportunities for the two countries to deepen cooperation. He expected that China and Japan would take BRF as an opportunity to continuously deepen the exchanges and cooperation, and jointly make more contributions to the peace and development in Asia and the world.
Governor TASSO TAKUYA made an introduction about the exchanges situation developed by Iwate-ken and Yunnan province as well as other relevant regions in China. He said, these years, Iwate-ken increasingly developed exchanges with China, which achieved a lot of pragmatic results. He would like to take this opportunity to further deepen the exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields and improve the bilateral relations through jointly participating in the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Photographed by Shen Haiting
