Mr. Tang Jiaxuan, President of China-Japan Friendship Association (CJFA) met in Beijing with Japanese Kansai Economic Federation (Kankeiren) delegation led by Mr. MATSUSHITA MASAYUKI, Vice President of Kankeiren and Vice President of Panasonic on July 13. Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), Mr. Yuan Mindao, Director-General of Department of Japanese Affairs of CPAFFC, attended the meeting.

President Tang welcomed Kankeiren delegation to China and spoke highly of the valuable contributions it had made as one of the most important economic organizations in Kansai region to working for the cause of Sino-Japanese friendship, promoting the exchanges and cooperation of the two countries in economy and trade as well as maintaining healthy and stable development of bilateral relations for many years. President Tang said, the cooperation in economy and trade between China and Japan will face new opportunities with the current bilateral relations being improved increasingly. Chinese President Xi Jinping met at request in G20 Hamburg Summit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. Both sides reached consensus on developing Sino-Japanese relations. Prime Minister Abe also expressed the willingness to develop cooperation with China within the “Belt and Road” framework and expected Japanese economic circles including Kankeiren to catch the opportunities to actively take part in the construction of the “Belt and Road” , so as to make  contributions to further deepening the exchanges and cooperation in economy, trade, and push the bilateral relations for improvement.

Vice President MATSUSHITA MASAYUKI said, Kankeiren attaches great importance to the exchanges and cooperation in economy and trade with China. Since 2015, Kankeiren had held Japan and China entrepreneurs exchange conferences with CJFA for 3 consecutive years, and yesterday the third entrepreneur conference was held in Shanghai successfully. The entrepreneurs from the two countries held a pragmatic discussion on the topics of health and beauty, city travel and etc., which achieved good results. There is a long and deep historic origin between Kansai region and China, which also have close economic contact. Therefore, Kansai economic circle will continue to carry forward the tradition, develop various  activities of friendly exchanges with China, actively support the construction of the “Belt and Road”, increasingly deepen the exchange and cooperation of the two countries in economy and trade, so as to improve the bilateral relations.