The growing Chinese market presents huge investment opportunities for Japanese companies, Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, said Wednesday in Tokyo.

Li, who started an eight-day visit to Japan on Tuesday, also asked Japan to lift restrictive trade measures against Chinese farm imports, especially poultry.

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry has a ban in place on chicken imports from China, the United States and other places affected by a fowl epidemic.