Dalian in Northeast China's Liaoning province has invested 16.8 billion yuan building the China-Japan-South Korea Circular Economy Demonstration Base.
China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) will hold the ninth round of trilateral free trade zone (FTZ) negotiations in Japan in December.
The trilateral talks scheduled to be held in Seoul on Nov 1 are a golden opportunity to break the deadlock in cooperation and promote interaction.
Neither China nor Japan benefits from increased tensions and should strive to eliminate them through cooperation, says senior Chinese official.
Levels of hostility and pessimism toward the future are dropping among Chinese and Japanese citizens, while history and territorial issues continue to impose a negative impact on public opinion, according to an annual survey unveiled on Thursday.
Defense chiefs of the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan have planned to hold a bilateral dialogue next week in Seoul to discuss the nuclear and missile program of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and security bills passed in Japanese parliament last month.
Joint efforts will ensure a successful summit between the leaders of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea, State Councilor Yang Jiechi told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met on Wednesday with visiting Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, who came to Tokyo for the second China-Japan high-level political dialogue.
Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Head of the Japanese national security council Yachi Shotaro co-chaired the second China-Japan high-level political dialogue in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Observers say the three countries have a shared belief in controlling and tackling thorny issues such as those related to history.