A senior Chinese official in charge of propaganda told a group of visiting Japanese lawmakers that China was willing to work with Japan to foster a more favourable public perception of the two nations among each other’s citizens.
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Li Shulei, head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, made the comments while meeting politicians from Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner Komeito in Beijing on Monday.
The Japanese delegation, led by LDP secretary general Hiroshi Moriyama and his Komeito counterpart Makoto Nishida, arrived in the Chinese capital earlier that day as they kicked off a three-day visit to the country.
The delegation is expected to join a bilateral dialogue between the governing parties of China and Japan on Tuesday. The last time the dialogue was held was in October 2018.
During the Monday meeting, Li said China’s ruling party was willing to work with the Japanese coalition to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries.
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“The Chinese Communist Party is willing to work with the ruling coalition of Japan to … strengthen political dialogue, promote people-to-people exchanges and create a healthy and rational public opinion environment for China-Japan relations,” Li said, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua.