Top legislator meets Japanese youth delegation  ( 2003-12-09 09:48) (Xinhua)     Wu Bangguo, chairman of the 
Standing Committee of the China's National People's Congress, met Monday with a 
Japanese youth delegation headed by Hayashi Yoshimasa, member of the House of 
Councilors of Japan. 
 The visit was part of a program set up in accordance with a framework plan of 
cooperation between the youth of the two countries signed in 1998 when former 
Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Japan. 
 Wu said that Sino-Japanese youth exchanges have been fruitful since 1998, and 
the youth of the two countries have promoted mutual understanding and friendship 
and injected dynamism into thegood-neighborly relations between the two 
countries. 
 Noting that the youth of the two countries shoulder the responsibility of 
maintaining friendship between the two countries, Wu said that the Chinese 
government attaches importance to the exchanges between the youth and encourages 
the young politicians to increase contacts. 
 He voiced the hope that the youth of the two countries could, according to 
the principles of learning from history and facing the future, continue to push 
forward the Sino-Japanese relations. 
 Hayashi Yoshimasa said that youth exchanges constitute an important component 
of the relations between Japan and China, and he and other delegates would like 
to inherit the cause of Sino-Japanese friendship and promote the bilateral 
relations. 
 
   
 
 
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