Economic relations are the silver lining

Editor's note: From conflicts over the Diaoyu Islands to the dispute over China's rare earths exports policy, China-Japan relations are dipping to a new low. In an annual survey on these relations released in June, 80 percent of the interviewees - a record high - believed that the bilateral relations are "not good".

But don't be too pessimistic. When we look at the outlook for the China-Japan economic and trade relations, things are much positive. At the two-day eighth Beijing-Tokyo Forum, which began on Monday, almost all the participants from the two countries, including the current and former government officials and corporate managers, reached a consensus that China and Japan need to join hands, especially at a time when the European debt crisis is deepening, and that the opportunities for future cooperation is immense.

China Daily talked to some of them about why and how the two Asian economies could cooperate in the future, the following is the list of questions and their answers.