Cities wish to take cooperation to 'new level'

Provincial and municipal officials from China and Japan agreed to promote regional cooperation with each other at the Fifth Beijing-Tokyo Forum yesterday.

"By exchanging ideas and experiences cities in both countries can improve their management systems a great deal," Hiroya Masuda, former Japanese minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, said at a sub-forum in the port city of Liaoning province.

"Most cities face similar problems and the problems can only be solved by learning from each other's experiences and mistakes," Masuda said.