On February 1st, 2016 New Year Concert & China-Japan Friendly Annual Meeting held by CPAFFC in Beijing. Mr. Tang Jiaxuan, President of China-Japan Friendship Association, Ms. Li Xiaolin, President of CPAFFC, Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of CPAFFC, Mr. Ye Xiaowen, Chinese Member of the Fifth 21st Century Committee for China-Japan Friendship, Mr. Zhou Mingwei, Director of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, Mr. KITERA MASATO, Japan's Ambassador to China, and Mr. kawaihirotaka, General Manager of KAWAI Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd., attended the concert. President Tang Jiaxuan and Japan’s Ambassador KITERA MASATO made speeches, respectively.
President Tang said that, with the effort of China and Japan, China-Japan relationship is gradually recovered and improved in 2015. High level meetings between two countries have been held many times. Two countries’ communication and cooperation in different fields are orderly recovered, as well as, the two countries’ personnel exchange keeps growing. Achieving such situation is so hard, and it should be valued by both sides. However, relevant conflicts between the two countries have not yet been solved essentially. The improvement of the two countries’ relationship is still not very promising. It still requires both sides to keep their commitments, and make long-term effort to promote friendly bilateral relations.
President. Tang Jiaxuan emphasized that, the friendly relationship between China and Japan is not only important for fundamental interests of the two countries and the two peoples, but also important for the stability and prosperity of Asia and even the whole world. China is willing to work together with Japan, in the spirit of learning from the history and facing up to the future on the basis of the four documents between the two countries, to implement the four-point principled agreement, advance China-Japan strategic and mutual beneficial relationship, and promote the two countries’ relationship returning to normal development track as soon as possible.
President. Tang Jiaxuan also expressed, no integration of streams, can't result in seas and oceans. Without constant hard working for the cause of friendship between China and Japan in practice, the two countries’ relations cannot be kept steady and forward. In the new year, the China-Japan Friendship Association would like to keep active cooperation with Japanese friends in various circles so as to enhance the mutual understanding and trust between the two countries’ people and improve the China and Japan’s relations. We wish our effort would contribute to providing good conditions for the 45th anniversary of Chinese-Japanese Normalization of Diplomatic Relations.
Mr. KITERA MASATO thanked the CPAFFC for making contributions to promoting the friendly exchanges between the two countries and for giving great support to the Embassy of Japan in China. He said that, the China-Japan relations had developed better and better through the top leaders’ meetings in the last year. He expected to take opportunities of the G20 Summit and Meeting of Japan, China and Korea leaders in this year, to improve and develop China-Japan relations. He said, I am confident about the Chinese economy although someone is worried about it. There will be a broader space for the cooperation between the two countries, since the economic relations between the two countries is very close. The Embassy of Japan in China would like to make efforts on developing the China-Japan relations together with CPAFFC and China-Japan Friendship Association.
During the concert, Ms. Chen Manchun and Ms. ENTAI AYANO, the Chinese and Japanese youth pianists, Mr. Du Cong and Mr. Fang Jinlong, the folk music artists, and Mr. Ye Xiaowen, the Chinese Member of the Fifth 21st Century Committee for China-Japan Friendship, performed the beautiful folk and western music. The environment was warm and excited in the concert.
About 150 persons, from related ministries, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the International Liaison Department of CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Youth League and organizations concerned, and representatives from related units in Beijing, the Japanese Embassy in China, Japanese organizations and enterprises in China, and the media of the both sides, attended the above activity.
