Liu welcomes delegation from Tokyo

Vice-Premier Liu Yandong met on Wednesday in Beijing with a Japanese delegation and discussed moving forward with a host of issues, including a consensus reached last week at the G20 Summit and other items.

The meeting at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in downtown Beijing was notable because the Japanese delegation was composed of female lawmakers from the nation's ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

Liu noted that this year marks the 45th anniversary of the normalization of diploma-tic relations between China and Japan and next year will see the 40th anniversary of the China-Japan Peace and Friendship Treaty. She said the relationship stands at a critical moment.