Chinese vice premier meets Japanese minister of internal affairs

BEIJING, May 4 -- China would work with Japan to advance the healthy and stable growth of bilateral strategic and mutually-beneficial relations, said Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang here on Monday.

"The Sino-Japanese ties now enjoy sound development," Zhang told visiting Japanese Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Kunio Hatoyama.

In the communication sector, Zhang said the two nations had conducted good cooperation and made progress.

"China and Japan complement each other in the communication field," he said, noting that to increase exchanges and pragmatic cooperation in this sector would help promote each other's communication industry.

"The Sino-Japanese cooperation in communications is also conducive to coping with the current international financial crisis and pushing forward regional social and economic progress," he said.

Echoing Zhang, Hatoyama said Japan would expand cooperation with China in the communication sector.

The minister was here on a visit from May 3 to 6 at the invitation of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.