Abe's new Cabinet urged to improve ties with Beijing

China is urging the new Japanese Cabinet led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was re-elected on Wednesday, to enact "positive" China policies and improve bilateral ties as it promised.

"We hope the new Japanese Cabinet adheres to the spirit of relevant documents and consensus, adopts positive China policies and takes concrete actions to fulfill its statement of improving China-Japan ties so as to work with China to push bilateral ties to advance in the right direction," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Thursday at a daily news briefing.

Abe, the leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, has been Japan's prime minister since December 2012.