BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping said in a phone call with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday he attaches great importance to the development of China-Japan relations, state television CCTV reported.
Xi said he is willing to work with Kishida to build China-Japan relationships, CCTV said, citing a phone call between the two to exchange congratulations to each other on the 50th anniversary of normalisation of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
(Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)