China and Japan on Monday jointly released a press communique on their first high-level economic dialogue which was held over the weekend, confirming pushing forward cooperation on intellectual property rights protection.

 

The one-day dialogue meeting China and Japan had "frank" discussions of issues concerning macro-economic policies, trade and investment, climate change, environmental protection and multilateral and regional economic cooperation and the two sides agreed to release a report on their joint research about bilateral economic and trade cooperation in the long term.

 

The pragmatic and detailed measures in the communique also include those on  facilitating China-Japan trade on agricultural products, high technologies, logistics and cooperation between Chinese and Japanese small and medium sized enterprises and pushing forward cooperation on intellectual property rights protection and in financial areas, said Zhang.

 

The dialogue meeting was co-chaired by Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan and Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura whose visit was considered the prelude of Japan's new Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's upcoming visit to China.

 

The dialogue mechanism was jointly launched by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during Wen's trip to Japan in April of 2007.

 

China and Japan agreed to convene the second dialogue by the end of 2008 in Tokyo, the communique said.

 

(Xinhua)

 

2007-12-04

2007-12-04