Special Report: President Hu Visits Japan
TOKYO, May 8 (Xinhua) -- China will invite 100
Japanese students at Tokyo's Waseda University to visit China, Chinese President
Hu Jintao said Thursday.
Hu, on a state visit to Japan, announced the plan
while delivering a speech at Waseda University.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao delivers a speech at Waseda University in Tokyo, capital of Japan, on May 8, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)
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Hu Jintao said it would be a part of the ongoing
China-Japan Friendly Exchange Year of the Youth, during which both China and
Japan will hold a series of activities in various forms with rich contents.
"I hope that students here can join in the exchange
project to visit China," Hu said.
"The youth should advance the world's civilization,
bring happiness to the human beings and contribute their youthful energy to
mankind's prosperity," Hu quoted Waseda alumnus Li Dazhao, China's revolutionary
pioneer in the early 20th century, as saying.
"I had been engaged in a job which dealt with the
youth affairs for years, and (thus) I have special feelings for the youth," said
Hu, who served as a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the
Communist Youth League of China (CYLC) and Chairman of the All-China Youth
Federation in 1982-1984 and the first secretary of Secretariat of the CYLC
Central Committee in 1984-1985.
The young Chinese and Japanese are the fresh force
for promoting the friendship between the two countries and are destined to be
the ones to create the future for such ties, said the Chinese president.
He recalled his address delivered last June to a
Japanese delegation composed of descendants and representatives of the Japanese
participants of the largest-ever Japan-China youth gathering in 1984, saying
that as time can change people's appearance it can not alter the friendship
among people, the seed of friendship sown in the youth time will grow with our
whole life.
The president encouraged young people of both
countries to make joint efforts to sow the seeds of friendship extensively and
pass the banner of friendship on from generation to generation.
In the fall of 1984, 3,000 Japanese young people, at
the invitation of the Chinese government, visited China, the largest foreign
group China had ever received. The event was described as an unprecedented one
in the history of China-Japan friendship.
President Hu is in Japan for a five-day "warm-spring"
state visit, the first trip by a Chinese president to the country in a decade.
Chinese President: Prospects lie ahead
for settlement of East China Sea issue
TOKYO, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao said
here Wednesday that prospects lie ahead for China and Japan to resolve the issue
of joint exploration of oil and natural gas resources in the East China Sea.
Hu made the remarks during a joint press briefing with Japanese Prime
Minister Yasuo Fukuda following their official talks around noon. Full story
Chinese president meets Japanese
political party leaders
TOKYO, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese President Hu
Jintao Wednesday met here separately with leaders and representatives of Japan's
major political parties.
During the talks, President Hu said that China and Japan,
as close neighbors and major powers in Asia and in the world at large, share
vast common interests in international affairs and shoulder common
responsibility in promoting regional and world peace and development. Full story
Chinese, Japanese leaders seek for new
prospects for bilateral ties
TOKYO, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao and
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda held talks here Wednesday to seek for new
prospects for the two countries' strategic and mutually beneficial relations.
Hu is on a five-day state visit to Japan, the first to the
country by China's head of state in a decade. Full story
Chinese, Japanese leaders agree to
exchange regular visits
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd L) and
his wife Liu Yongqing (1st L) pose for photos with Japanese Prime Minister
Yasuo Fukuda (2nd R) and his wife Kiyoko (1st R) before a meeting in
Tokyo, Japan, May 7, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)
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TOKYO, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao and
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed Wednesday to establish a mechanism
for a regular exchange of visits between leaders of the two countries in an
effort to enhance bilateral ties. Full story
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