China and Japan need to continue candid exchanges to smooth over thorny security and diplomatic issues and achieve mutual understanding.
Many Chinese city and provincial officials expressed their wishes to share experience in government and crisis management with their Japanese counterparts at the sixth annual Beijing-Tokyo Forum on Monday.
China's continuing transformation of its mode of economic development has opened up new opportunities for Sino-Japanese trade.
Despite Japan's escalated maritime disputes with China, discussion about "military threats from China" in Japan is indeed exaggerated, Japan's former defense minister said on Monday.
Japan should make the best of China's rapid development and forge ahead with greater cooperation, Wang Chen, minister of the State Council Information Office, told Japanese media.China threat exaggerated Japan should 'open up' to Chinese markets Economic co-op Journalists need to tell stories of common man Wang Chen meets media
China and Japan, the world's second and third largest economies, agreed to seek and develop "new engines" for growth, a move that will also help stabilize the global economy.Forum to boost China-Japan ties
Recalling efforts to establish a communication channel between Beijing and Tokyo six years ago to revive relations damaged after a former Japanese prime minister visited Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, Japan's chief Cabinet secretary on Sunday assured Chinese elites he would help ensure successful cooperation between Japan and China.
Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan talked by telephone on Sunday, marking the official activation of the China-Japan prime ministerial hotline, the Foreign Ministry said.
Chinese President Hu Jintao met new Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan in Canada's largest city of Toronto on Sunday to discuss bilateral ties.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan offered his sympathy to Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao over the fatal landslide in northwestern Gansu province, saying Japan is ready to provide assistance to help rehabiliate the region.
Japan's new liberal prime minister shunned a visit to a shrine that has outraged Asian neighbors for honoring war criminals, breaking from past governments' tradition and instead apologizing on Sunday for the suffering World War II caused.
Following its decision to hold large-scale military maneuvers with US forces in waters disputed with China, Tokyo has taken another step in its efforts to make the islets as its "national assets".