Wang Yi to pay official visit to Japan

State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay his first official visit to Japan from Sunday to Tuesday.

Wang will be in Tokyo to co-chair the fourth China-Japan High-level Economic Dialogue with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang announced.

The official visit serves as an important measure to boost high-level exchanges and communication, Geng told a Wednesday daily news conference in Beijing.

It is hoped that the two sides, through the visit, could boost mutual trust, accumulate more consensus, manage and control divergences and consolidate the improving momentum of China-Japan ties, Geng said.