Mr. Song Jingwu, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), met in Beijing with the visiting delegation led by Mr. MATSUO TAKASHI, Mayor of KAMAKURA on 9 October. Mme. Zhu Dan, Deputy Director General of Department of Japanese Affairs of CPAFFC, Mr. NAKAMURA SOICHIRO, Speaker of KAMAKURA and Mr. KUBOTA HARUHIKO, President of the Kamakura Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), attended the meeting.

Vice President Song Jingwu extended welcome to the delegation and spoke highly of the valuable contributions personages from all walks of life in KAMAKURA had made for a long time to promoting the healthy and stable relationship between China and Japan at the local level, such as, actively developing the exchanges and cooperation in variou fields with Dunhuang and other China relevant regions. Vice President Song introduced the current Sino-Japanese relationship and the relevant situations of the construction of the Belt and Road to the delegation. He expected KAMAKURA to take the 20th anniversary of the establishment relationship with Dunhuang as an important opportunity to improve the exchanges and cooperation between Dunhuang and KAMAKURA a higher level in the fields of the Belt and Road, and the third party market.

Mayor MATSUO TAKASHI said, KAMAKURA paid high attention to the exchanges and cooperation with China. One of the important schedules this time was to attend the activity in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment relationship between Dunhuang and KAMAKURA in Dunhuang. In future, they would like to take the construction of the Belt and Road as an important opportunity to further develope the pragmatic coopertation with China relevant regions, and make contributions to the improvement of the Sino-Japanese relationship.