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Mr. Wang Yi, State Councilor and Foreign Minister for the People’s Republic of China to Visit Japan
1. Mr. Wang Yi, State Councilor and Foreign Minister for the People’s Republic of China, will pay a Working Visit to Japan from April 15 to 17 upon invitation by the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
2. State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang will take part in a Japan-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting with Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Foreign Affairs, on April 15, and is scheduled to attend the Fourth Japan-China High-Level Economic Dialogue on April 16, which will be chaired on the Japanese side by Foreign Minister Kono and on the Chinese side by State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang.
3. This will be the first bilateral visit to Japan by a Chinese foreign minister in approximately eight years and five months since November 2009, and the first Japan-China High-Level Economic Dialogue to be held in approximately seven years and eight months since August 2010.
[Reference] Japan-China High-Level Economic Dialogue
(1) When Mr. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, visited China in October 2006, the leaders of Japan and China agreed to establish the Japan-China High-Level Economic Dialogue from the standpoint of the “Mutually Beneficial Relationship Based on Common Strategic Interests,” as a platform of holding regular dialogue among economic ministers for solving problems and promoting cooperation from a broad perspective. A launching conference took place in Tokyo (at the Iikura Guest House) in the presence of the Prime Ministers of Japan and China as an event held during the visit to Japan of Mr. Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council of China, in April 2007. The Japan-China High-Level Economic Dialogues have been held three times thus far.
(2) Previous Dialogues
| First | December 1, 2007, in Beijing | |
| Second | June 7, 2009, in Tokyo | |
| Third | August 28, 2010, in Beijing |