BEIJING - Nearly 1,000 Chinese and Japanese people planted commemorative trees in Beijing on Saturday morning to mark the 40th anniversary of the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic ties.
Zhao Shucong, chief of the State Forestry Administration, said in his address that China and Japan have attached great importance to cooperating over ecological construction, which is a key sector of bilateral friendly relations.
The planting of the trees is based on a fund initiated by the Japanese government for the two countries' civilian exchanges in forestation. China and Japan also set up a civilian committee to guide non-governmental forestation cooperation between the two countries in 1999.
The Chinese and Japanese governments have set 2012 as "the year of civilian friendly exchanges" with this year serving as a major anniversary for bilateral relationship.
Former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan and Japanese ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa attended the tree planting.
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 130349 
