The 9th high-level Sino-Japanese Economic Symposium co-sponsored by the People's Daily and Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) was opened on November 20 in Tianjin. Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi both sent congratulatory greetings.
The Ninth Sino-Japanese Economic Symposium aims to promote cordial and wide-ranging communication on subjects with which both sides concerned in the new century.
The main theme of the symposium is: China's WTO Entry and Sino-Japanese economic cooperation in the 21st century.
Chinese representatives attending the symposium are Yu Xiaosong, president of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade; Liu Mingkang, chairman and president of Bank of China; Zhu Yanfeng, general manager of China FAW (First Automobile Works) Group and Li Shenglin, mayor of Tianjin
Japanese representatives are Noboru Hatakeyama, chairman of JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization ) Council; Fujio Cho, president of TOYOTA Motor Corp. and Tadashi Sekizawa, chairman of Fujitsu Limited.
(People's Daily November 20, 2001)
