Beijing, Tokyo vow to strengthen dialogue

Beijing and Tokyo agreed to strengthen strategic communication and promote healthy, stable and forward-looking development of their relations during a high-level dialogue on Tuesday.

Yang Jiechi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, presided over the fifth China-Japan high-level political dialogue along with Shotaro Yachi, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's national security adviser, in Suzhou, Jiangsu province.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the China-Japan Peace and Friendship Treaty, Yang said.