摘要
China-Japan ties, in cluding economic and trade cooperation, have been gaining positive momentum since last year. During their meeting in Beijing in October 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping told visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that Japan is welcome to participate in China's progress in the new era. In response, Abe expressed Japan's desire to beef up cooperation with China in a number of areas while calling the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative "promising" The initiative, consisting of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21 st-Century Maritime Silk Road, aims to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along and beyond the ancient Silk Road trade routes.
