China, Japan reach ten people-to-people cultural exchange agreements – World

BEIJING – Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese Foreign Minister, and Takeshi Iwaya, Japanese Foreign Minister, jointly attended the second meeting of a high-level consultation mechanism on people. People and cultural exchange between China and Japan on Wednesday in Beijing.

The meeting resulted in the following ten important agreements.

First, both sides will promote youth exchange visits and promote and support study tours between the two countries.

Second, the two sides will deepen cooperation in education, strengthen foreign student exchanges, and support primary and secondary schools in both countries to establish sister schools and colleges to carry out inter-school cooperation.

Third, both sides will support tourism cooperation and introduce other facilitation measures to promote mutual visits between tourists from both countries.

Fourth, both sides will build more bridges for exchanges between sister cities and make good use of mechanisms and platforms such as the China-Japan Governor Forum, the China-Japan-ROK Cultural Exchange Year and the Culture Cities of East Asia to grow friendly exchanges locally and non-governmental level.

Fifth, both sides will strengthen sports exchanges and cooperation and support each other in hosting major sports events such as the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games and the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.

Sixth, the two sides will support further cooperation in film, television, music, publishing, animation, games and other cultural and entertainment industries, exchange visits of high-level art groups, and support the translation and publication of classical works between the two countries.

Seventh, both sides will strengthen exchanges and cooperation between media and think tanks, play a positive role in bilateral relations, and strive to improve public opinion and the public opinion environment. Both sides will support exchanges and cooperation in new media and promote exchanges between positive sentiments of both countries.

Eighth, both sides will conduct exchanges between women’s groups and share experiences in promoting the common development of men and women. China invites Japan to attend the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment to mark the 30th anniversary of the Fourth Annual World Conference on Women.

Ninth, both sides will make the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Kansai a platform for exchanges and friendship between the two peoples. China supports Japan in hosting the Expo, while Japan welcomes China’s participation and will provide assistance in the preparation and operation of the China Pavilion.

Tenth, both sides will hold the third meeting of the China-Japan High-Level Consultation Mechanism on People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges in Japan in due course.

Wang pointed out that next year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese people’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the Anti-Fascist World War, and said the purpose of remembering this history is to learn lessons from it and do so hard Fought for a worthy peace.

China hopes and believes that Japan can once again demonstrate its determination for peaceful development and work with China to promote the healthy and stable development of Sino-Japanese relations in the spirit of clearly confronting history and looking to the future said Wang.

Iwaya said Japan is willing to work with China to improve the quality of people-to-people exchange projects, deepen exchanges between sister cities and take more measures to facilitate personnel exchanges.