The Japanese Delegation of Soka Gakkai led by Vice President Ikeda Hiromasa came to visit China from May 25th to 28th at the CPAFFC’s invitation. On May 27th, State Councilor Yang Jiechi met with the delegation at Chengwudian of Zhongnanhai.

Yang Jiehchi said, both China and Japan are major countries in Asia and the Asia-Pacific region. China attaches great importance to people-to-people exchanges and cooperations between the two countries. Recently, President Xi Jinping made the remarks during a gathering with over 3000 Japanese visitors in Beijing to support China-Japan exchanges at the Great Hall of the People, in which he pointed out that the China-Japan friendship is rooted in the peoples, and the future of the bilateral relationship is in the hand of the peoples. China would like to take history as a mirror and look forward into the future, and work with the Japanese side to boost biliteral ties based on the four political documents between the two countries. China-Japan relationship is now improving step by step. We hope that the two peoples especially the youths will further advance their exchanges. Yang Jiechi positively evaluated the efforts Soka Gakkai has made to promote friendly relations between two sides and encouraged them to continue to play the advantages as a traditional friendly organization toward China as to make more contributions to China-Japan friendship from generation to generation.

Ikeda Hiromasa thanked Mr. Yang for meeting the delegation. He said, all circles of Japanese society responded positively to the remarks made by President Xi, which inspired many of the Japanese friendly organizations. Japan and China are neighboring countries of mutual importance and thus Soka Gakkai will follow the tradition and continuously devote for the improvement and development of people-to-people exchanges and biliteral relations.

President Li Xiaolin and Vice President Hu Sishe of the CPAFFC were present at the meeting.