Ties face new opportunities: Hu
TOKYO: Sino-Japanese relations are facing new opportunities for further development, President Hu Jintao said in the Japanese capital yesterday.
In a written statement issued at the airport upon his arrival in Tokyo, Hu said both China and Japan are important countries in Asia and in the world, and "the development of a long-term, stable and good neighborly friendship between China and Japan is in the fundamental interests of the two countries and the two peoples".
The Chinese president's arrival kicked off a five-day "warm spring" trip to Japan, aimed at boosting strategic and mutually beneficial relations between the two nations.
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