China is willing to comprehensively advance the strategic relationship of mutual benefit with Japan and hopes Japan will establish a correct understanding of China, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in his meeting with Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi in Tokyo on Friday
Noting that China and Japan have restarted the process of improving bilateral relations, Wang said that the four political documents between the two sides have laid the political and legal foundation for China-Japan relations, among which rules have been laid down on proper handling of historical issues and the Taiwan question.
China hopes Japan will establish a correct understanding of China, honor its promises on major issues of principle, eliminate interference, and promote the sound and steady development of China-Japan relations along the right track, Wang added.
For his part, Hayashi said Japan's position on the Taiwan question, based on the Japan-China joint communique in 1972, remains unchanged.
Japan is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields and looks forward to the fruitful results of the high-level economic dialogue between the two countries after a lapse of six years, so as to contribute to the sustained development of Japan-China relations and bring more benefits to the two peoples, Hayashi said.
China ready to advance strategic relationship of mutual benefit with Japan: FM
China ready to advance strategic relationship of mutual benefit with Japan: FM
The deepening integration of sci-tech innovation and industrial innovation emerged as a key focus for potential cooperation among global business leaders at the China Development Forum 2025 held in Beijing on Sunday and Monday.
Speaking at the forum, Li Lecheng, Party secretary of the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, highlighted China's steadfast implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy.
Currently, the number of foreign-invested enterprises established in China has surpassed 1.2 million, with foreign investments spanning 31 major categories and 548 subcategories within the country's manufacturing sector.
"Promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is not a solo performance by China, but a chorus by the world. China has a complete industrial system, rich application scenarios, a super-large-scale market and a large number of talents, which provides a broad cooperation space for international industrial scientific and technological innovation," Li said.
Notably, beyond production, establishing research and development centers in China to collaborate with domestic enterprises on tackling key technical challenges has increasingly become a growing trend among foreign investors.
British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca signed a landmark agreement on Friday to invest 2.5 billion U.S. dollars in Beijing over the next five years. Under the agreement, AstraZeneca will establish a global strategic research and development center in Beijing, its sixth worldwide and second in China after one in Shanghai. The new center, equipped with an advanced artificial intelligence and data science laboratory, will accelerate early-stage drug research and clinical development.
"The reason we want to invest in China is because of the explosion of innovation that is happening in the country. As we work with those companies, we invest, of course, but we also invest in bringing our own capabilities, our own skills. We are investing in the life science physical ecosystem in Beijing, for instance, where we are actually going to help smaller startup companies come up with new products, training people who will actually be able to create economic growth," said AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot.
The economic transformation led by innovation has also brought new opportunities for foreign-funded enterprises.
"We invest in high quality growth, we invest in innovating, and we invest in cooperating with our good Chinese partners. It's a journey that has just started right now, but it also is an area where we need to work close together," said Kim Fausing, president and CEO of Danfoss, a global market leader in heating and cooling.
China integrating innovation with industrial progress resonates with global business leaders
