Xi's upcoming state visit to Japan is of great significance and China is ready to maintain close communication with Japan and make preparations for the visit, he said.

China firmly supports Japan in successfully hosting the Tokyo Olympic Games, he added.

For his part, Abe said Xi's upcoming state visit to Japan this year is of great importance and Japan will make careful preparations to ensure the success and fruitful results of the visit.

The peoples of Japan and China have shown friendly feelings in their joint fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, Abe said.

He said Japan speaks highly of China's positive achievements in the fight against the virus and is ready to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China in information sharing and epidemic prevention and control, and send a positive signal to the international community of jointly tackling the challenges to global public health security.

Also on Friday Yang attended the eighth China-Japan high-level political dialogue with head of Japan's national security council Shigeru Kitamura and met with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi.

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