Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, meeting with a business delegation from Japan led by political heavyweight Yohei Kono, expressed his desire to get relations with Japan on the right track.
"This year is the 45th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, and China attaches great importance to China-Japan ties," Li said Monday.
In the meeting at Beijing's Great Hall of the People with the group from the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade, Li also said the two countries should step up efforts toward the "normal direction of development" in the spirit of "taking history as a mirror and looking forward to the future."