国际英语资讯:Interview: Japanese PM expects China trip to further consolidate bilateral ties_时事

国际英语资讯:Interview: Japanese PM expects China trip to further consolidate bilateral ties

The international community is currently facing great changes and conspicuous unstable factors, Abe said, adding that he believes the cooperation between China and Japan, the world's second and third largest economies respectively, can form a great force.

Japan is ready to work with China to push for the formulation of new rules for the digital economy under the framework of the World Trade Organization, he said.

Abe also listed the recent progress in bilateral cooperation in third-party markets. In 2018, the two sides agreed on jointly setting up "a committee to promote Japan-China non-governmental commercial activities conducted in a third party," which is across-departmental and involves both governments and private sectors, he said.

The two sides also agreed on holding the China-Japan Third-Party Market Cooperation Forum, which is making progress in its implementation with 52 cooperation memorandums already signed between private enterprises of the two countries, Abe said.

As to the increasingly vibrant people-to-people exchanges between China and Japan, Abe said that they are the foundation for bilateral ties.

During his visit to China last year, Abe designated 2019 as the China-Japan Youth Exchange Promotion Year with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and agreed to boost the number of people involved in youth exchanges to 30,000 in the next five years.

So far, more than 230 projects have been included in the China-Japan Youth Exchange Promotion Year and more than 270,000 people from Japan and China have participated, he said.