Economic hopes plagued by hostility

Most members of the Chinese public support economic cooperation with Japan, but their Japanese counterparts hold competing views, a major poll in both countries showed.

The poll showed that 62.9 percent of the Chinese public supports the idea that "the two economies are highly complementary, and they can cooperate and achieve a win-win situation", compared with 58.6 percent last year.

However, when the Japanese public were asked about Sino-Japanese economic ties, 47.1 percent of them believed that "the two economies are competing with each other and it is difficult for them to build a win-win relationship", an increase from 42.8 percent last year.