Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang (Photo: www.fmprc.gov.cn)
BEIJING, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- China said Monday that it expected that Japan could meet it "half-way" to improve bilateral ties this year.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang made the remarks at a daily press briefing, when commenting on reports that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently said that he wanted 2018 to be the year which people in Japan and China saw a "great improvement" in bilateral relations.
Lu said that China has noted the positive remarks and hoped Japan would act upon the four political documents and four-point principled consensus between China and Japan, and seize the opportunity of the 40th anniversary of the signing of the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, to create favorable conditions for bilateral exhange and cooperation.
