On the afternoon of December 1st, Mr. Hu Sishe, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) met with Mr. SAKASHITA SHIGENOBU, Chairman of Committee of Philia Non-Profitable Organization and the supreme Consultant of the Shenzhen Japanese CCI.
Since the early 1980s, under the guidance of Mr. OKAZAKI KAHEITA, one of the founders of China-Japan friendship, Mr. SAKASHITA SHIGENOBU actively developed economic and people-to-people exchange programs between China and Japan, and participated in planning and organizing many influential large-scale events such as Exchange Conference on China’s Policies for Foreign Enterprises which was jointly held with CPAFFC in 2002 and 2004 in succession. Mr. Li Ruihuan, then-Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) spoke highly of the conference at the time he was presented. After the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, Mr. SAKASHITA SHIGENOBU donated 6 million Yen to the disaster area. In September 2006, he was conferred People’s Friendship Contribution Prize.
During his meeting with Mr. SAKASHITA SHIGENOBU, CPAFFC Vice President Hu Sishe conveyed President Li Xiaolin’s greetings to him and thanked him for the contributions he had made to the cause of the friendship between China and Japan over the past several decades. He thought that the people-to-people friendship of the two countries should be developed with great efforts especially when the bilateral relations were confronted with difficulties and challenges.
Mr. SAKASHITA SHIGENOBU said, the next year will mark the 45th anniversary of the establishment of Japan-China diplomatic relations. They are planning some events to improve the bilateral ties. He said it had been long time since the last Exchange Conference on China’s Policies for Foreign Enterprises was held. . During the period, many new situations and problems arose. They would like to hold the third exchange conference. In addition, they hoped to strengthen the cooperation with the Chinese side in fields of the elderly care, child health care and etc..
Vice President Hu said that it is a good idea to enhance the mutual understanding, dispel the doubts and achieve win-win results through the third exchange conference. Both sides also have a large space to cooperate in fields of the elderly care, child health care, environmental protection and so on. Japan has many experience that China could adapt from. Vice President Hu said that in order to build an extensive platform of cooperation for the two countries’ enterprises, these contents could be considered to be added to the conference.
Mr. SAKASHITA SHIGENOBU agreed with Vice President Hu’ s suggestions and the both sides also discussed on some other cooperative intentions.
Mr. Hu Yang, Deputy Director-general of China Service Center for Friendship and Cooperation with Foreign Countries (CSC) of CPAFFC, attended the meeting.
