President Jiang Zemin and Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi issued the Sino-Japanese Joint Declaration, declaring the establishment of a partnership of friendship and cooperation for peace and development.
China and Japan are neighbouring countries, separated only by a strip of water with a long history of traditional friendship. The peoples of the two countries earnestly desire to put an end to the abnormal state of affairs that has hitherto existed between the two countries.
In August 1978, the Foreign Ministers of the two countries signed in Beijing the Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between the People's Republic of China and Japan.
Chinese customs officials have intercepted 952 tons of imported radioactive scrap metal from Japan in the coastal city of Taizhou in east China's Zhejiang Province, local authorities said Sunday.
Two China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels patrolled territorial waters surrounding the Diaoyu Islands, on Thursday, according to a State Oceanic Administration statement.
China on Wednesday urged the United States to "strictly abide by" its commitment to neutrality on the Diaoyu Islands issue.
There is no month like September that witnessed so many major events on the bumpy road of China-Japan relations.
A Chinese exchange student received an official commendation on Wednesday for saving a nine-year old boy who fell into the Yodo River in Osaka City of the western Japanese prefecture of Osaka, local press reported.
Archives proving Japan was guilty of trafficking Chinese victims into forced labor are displayed at the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Sept 18, the 82nd anniversary of the Japanese invasion.
Air defense sirens sounded on Wednesday morning across China to observe the 82nd anniversary of Japan's invasion. 
China urges Japan to learn from histroy, stick to peaceful path
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Tuesday urged Japan to learn from history and adhere to peaceful development path.
Eighty-two years after Japan's invasion of China and one year since Japanese government's "purchase" of China's Diaoyu Islands, bilateral relations mired in history have witnessed the cooling down of economic exchanges, despite remaining hopes among business people.
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