Officials should devise specific measures to ensure the "mass-line" campaign does not remain a mere formality, senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Liu Yunshan said Saturday.
China and Japan should work together to promote common security so as to inject "positive energy" to East Asia, a former UN official said at the Ninth China-Japan Forum in Beijing.
Quotes from the Beijing-Tokyo forum
Chinese and Japanese media experts exchanged their views about what role media should play in bilateral relations.
It makes me feel sad to see the current tension between China and Japan. The Japanese government should take the blame for the worsening of bilateral relations. Japan should take the courage to face up to history.
China is ramping up efforts to improve its relations with neighboring countries, as Chinese leaders were busy last week receiving leaders of Russia, India and Mongolia.
A senior Chinese diplomat on Saturday called on China and Japan to make joint efforts to put bilateral relations back on track.
President Xi Jinping has said that China would strive for a sound neighboring environment for its own development and seek common development with neighboring countries.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Mongolian Prime Minister Norov Altankhuyag in Beijing on Friday and pledged to further advance the strategic partnership between the two countries.
A slump in business cooperation amid freezing political relations between China and Japan after the Diaoyu Islands disputes has imposed a new challenge for the two countries.
China-Japan ties are at their worst situation in the past four decades, but the two countries cannot be against each other and must improve relations, a senior Japanese political figure said Saturday.
When Toshihiro Soejima, director of Genron NPO, began his annual fund-raising efforts for the Beijing-Tokyo forum this year, he said he had "worries that we won't be supported by companies" this year.