Experts call on China, Japan to deepen cooperation

Former vice-premier Zeng Peiyan speaks during the fifth round of a dialogue between Chinese and Japanese entrepreneurs and former high-ranking officials in Tokyo, on July 11, 2019. China and Japan should jointly resist protectionism and uphold multilateralism as well as the free trade system in order to repair the broken global industrial and supply chains, said former vice-premier Zeng Peiyan in Tokyo on Thursday. "Trade protectionism had challenged the globalization process of the world and had been a threat to the recovery of world economy as it has severely affected the normal operation of the global industrial chains and supply chains," said Zeng, now chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges. In Tokyo for the fifth round of a dialogue between Chinese and Japanese entrepreneurs and former high-ranking officials, Zeng called for an integrated effort of the two countries to enhance regional cooperation and reach the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership deal as well as the free trade agreement between China, Japan and South Korea. "I hope that entrepreneurs in Japan and China can seize the new round of opening-up opportunities in China, strengthen cooperation and coordination to push Sino-Japanese economic and trade relations to a new level in the new era," Zeng said.