Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and governor of Hunan Province, met in Changsha with Hiroshi Moriyama, chairman of the General Council of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, and his entourage on the morning of July 21, 2024.
Qu Hai, secretary general of the provincial government, attended.
On July 21, Governor Mao met with Chairman Hiroshi Moriyama.
The meeting.
Governor Mao welcomed the guests and thanked Chairman Hiroshi Moriyama for his long-term contributions to Hunan-Japan friendly exchanges. He noted that Hunan and Japan enjoy a long history of friendly exchanges, frequent people-to-people communication, close economic and trade exchanges, and broad prospects for cooperation. Since Changsha and Kagoshima knotted friendship city ties in 1982, Hunan and Japan have established a total of 12 pairs of friendship city relations. In 2023, the import and export volume between Hunan and Japan reached 13.863 billion CNY. Last November, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in San Francisco, reconfirming comprehensively promoting the strategically and mutually beneficial relationship between the two countries, which provided important political guidance for the development of bilateral relations.
He expected the two sides to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, giving full play to the platform role of friendship city ties. Both sides can further industrial collaboration in such fields as equipment manufacturing, electronic information, biomedicine, and agricultural machinery; foster closer partnerships in cultural and tourism exchanges; enhance exchanges in modern agricultural technology; and, strengthen exchanges among the youth. We should work together to bring real benefits to our two peoples and enhance mutual understanding, thereby making new contributions to building a China-Japan relationship that meets the demands of the new era, he added.
The meeting.
Hiroshi Moriyama expressed his appreciation for Hunan's development achievements. He said this is his 10th visit to Hunan, and each time he has witnessed the rapid development and vibrant energy of Hunan. He hoped this visit would be an opportunity to play the linking role of advancing communication and cooperation between the two places in economy and trade, agriculture, culture, tourism and other fields, jointly opening a new chapter in China-Japan friendly relations.
Photos taken by Liu Shangwen.
This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.
Translator: Yu Jiangjiang
Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn
