On June 8, 2018, CPAFFC Vice President Hu Sishe led the delegation of “Art of China Tour” to meet with Kiyoshi Ueda, President of the National Governors’ Association of Japan and Governor of Saitama Prefecture.

During the meeting, Hu Sishe said that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Sino-Japanese Peace and Friendship Treaty. China-Japan relations are at a significant moment serving as a link between past and future, and facing a rare opportunity for improvement and development. Not long ago, Governor Kiyoshi Ueda and CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin co-chaired the "China-Japan Governor Governor's Forum", which played a positive role in promoting exchanges and cooperation between local governments of the two countries. He pointed out that the friendly exchanges between China and Japan had always been a very important task for the CPAFFC. Even when the relations between the two countries faced difficulties, the association was always attaching importance to promoting the people-to-people friendship between China and Japan, which laid a solid foundation of public opinions for the high-level exchanges between the two countries. Hu Sishe specially thanked Kiyoshi Ueda for his contributions to the friendly exchanges between China and Japan as the president of the National Governors’ Association of Japan and Governor of Saitama Prefecture, and expressed his hope to see more pragmatic exchanges and cooperation in the future.

Kiyoshi Ueda thanked the CPAFFC for its active commitment to friendly exchanges with all walks of life in Japan. He said that he was willing to work with the CPAFFC to carry out unremittingly friendly exchanges between the people, inherit and carry forward the tradition of Japan-China friendship, and continue to contribute to the improvement of the friendly relations between the two countries, regardless of the general political environment.

Photographed by Liu Wenwen