Chinese vice president meets with Japanese business delegation

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with a delegation of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai, in Beijing on Monday.

Han noted that the economic and trade cooperation between China and Japan has a sound foundation, large space and strong complementarity, calling on the two sides to tap the potential of cooperation and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results at a higher level.

China's door to the outside world will open even wider, Han said, expressing the hope that the Keizai Doyukai will give full play to its own advantages and encourage Japanese companies to have a comprehensive and accurate understanding of China and seize China's development opportunities.

Takeshi Niinami, chairperson of the Keizai Doyukai, highly appreciated China's economic and social development achievements, and said that his association is willing to continue to play a role as a bridge in promoting Japanese business circles to further explore the China market and in further deepening mutually beneficial cooperation.

Chinese vice president meets with Japanese business delegation

Chinese vice president meets with Japanese business delegation

The Philippines' trick to play victim and confuse the international community over the South China Sea issue will not get anywhere, Defense Ministry spokesman Zhang Xiaogang said at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday.

Zhang made the remarks in response to the Philippine Coast Guard accusation of China of using large vessels to intimidate smaller Philippine ships.

"China has indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea Islands and their adjacent waters. The maritime disputes between China and the Philippines are not a matter of size as who is big and who is small, but a matter of right and wrong. The Philippine side has repeatedly organized coast guard vessels and fishing boats to infringe upon China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, endanger peace and stability in the South China Sea, and attempt to play a pathetic game to gain sympathy and confuse the international public opinion. This is doomed to fail. We advise the Philippine side to immediately change course and return to the right track of resolving the issue with China through negotiation and consultation," Zhang said.

Defense Ministry spokesman dismisses Philippines' victim playing trick