On November 26th ,Vice President Song Jingwu met with Mr. OSUGA YOSHIRO, Vice Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan and his delegation.

Vice President Song Jingwu welcomed Vice Governor OSUGA YOSHIRO and his delegation to visit China and conveyed President Li Xiaolin’s cordial greetings to Governor Heita Kawakatsu of Shizuoka Prefecture. Vice President Song Jingwu said, the local exchanges and cooperation are an important component of China-Japan relations. Since Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture and China’s Zhejiang Province had established friendship provinces/prefectures, the both sides developed different kinds of friendly exchanges and pragmatic cooperation in many different fields. The achievements they acquired to promote the bilateral ties were obvious and satisfied. He hoped that Shizuoka Prefecture would further develop the channels and fields of exchanges with China and make new contributions to enhancing the two peoples’ mutual understanding and friendship, as well as promoting the improvement of the China-Japan ties.

Vice Governor OSUGA YOSHIRO expressed, Shizuoka Prefecture will actively develop the friendly exchanges programs with China and will make their efforts to promote the cause of friendship between Japan and China.