Chinese State Councilor Wu Yi said Sunday that the economic
cooperation between China and Japan has broad prospects.
She made the remark at a reception to mark the 20th anniversary of
Sino-Japanese economic cooperation in the Great Hall of the People
in Beijing.
Thanks to the joint efforts of both countries, Wu said, bilateral
economic cooperation has achieved notable results over the past two
decades.
She said that the China and Japan are important trade partners and
have established a framework of cooperation that is complimentary,
diversified, stable and growing.
Presently, further development of bilateral economic cooperation is
an important part of friendly cooperation between the two
countries, Wu said, adding that the strengthening of Sino-Japanese
economic cooperation is in the interest of the peoples of both
countries and is beneficial to the development and prosperity of
the Asian economy.
According to Chinese Minister of Finance Xiang Huaicheng, China's
reform and opening-up drive has provided opportunities for
Sino-Japanese economic cooperation.
The minister noted that the development aid provided to China by
the Japanese government is an important part of bilateral economic
cooperation.
Statistics show that by the end of June this year, the Japanese
government had provided 2,675.5 billion yen in development aid to
China, including 2,453.5 billion yen in loans, 112 billion yen in
grants and 110 billion yen for technological cooperation.
The minister said that economic cooperation between China and Japan
covers an increasingly widening range such as transportation,
energy, telecommunications, education, medicine, agriculture and
water conservancy, environmental protection, social security and
public infrastructure, with related projects carried out in all the
provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the Chinese
mainland.
The cooperation has played an active role in supporting China's
effort to boost economic growth, and improve the investment
environment and the people's living standards, as well as in
personnel training, Xiang said.
The reception was jointly held by the Ministry of Finance, the
Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Ministry
of Science and Technology.
More than 300 people from both China and Japan attended the
reception.
(People’s Daily 10/09/2000)