Top legislator meets Japanese youth delegation ( 2003-12-09 09:48) (Xinhua) Wu Bangguo, chairman of the
Standing Committee of the China's National People's Congress, met Monday with a
Japanese youth delegation headed by Hayashi Yoshimasa, member of the House of
Councilors of Japan.
The visit was part of a program set up in accordance with a framework plan of
cooperation between the youth of the two countries signed in 1998 when former
Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Japan.
Wu said that Sino-Japanese youth exchanges have been fruitful since 1998, and
the youth of the two countries have promoted mutual understanding and friendship
and injected dynamism into thegood-neighborly relations between the two
countries.
Noting that the youth of the two countries shoulder the responsibility of
maintaining friendship between the two countries, Wu said that the Chinese
government attaches importance to the exchanges between the youth and encourages
the young politicians to increase contacts.
He voiced the hope that the youth of the two countries could, according to
the principles of learning from history and facing the future, continue to push
forward the Sino-Japanese relations.
Hayashi Yoshimasa said that youth exchanges constitute an important component
of the relations between Japan and China, and he and other delegates would like
to inherit the cause of Sino-Japanese friendship and promote the bilateral
relations.
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