State Councilor Yang Jiechi asked Japan to implement the four-point consensus on handling and improving Sino-Japanese relations.
China on Thursday rejected protests by Japan over the development of gas fields, which Japan said, were in a disputed part of the East China Sea, saying its work was in undisputed waters under China's jurisdiction.
The main advantage why China will not experience the 'Japan syndrome' is its large population and an even larger territory, says expert.
Some 45,000 Japanese protestors rallied in front of the country's parliament building in downtown Tokyo, trying to stop a possible passage of the controversial legislation.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will not attend September events in Beijing to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Tokyo government's top spokesman - and Abe himself - said on Monday.
In a statement to China Daily, Foreign Ministry dismisses claims that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit China next month.
The victory in Tengchong, Yunnan province, was anything but easy. Chinese and Japanese armies engaged more than 40 times in 127 days.
Let us hope, therefore, that traditional caution and the simple human sense of self-preservation may yet reassert itself in both Tokyo and Washington.
Some officials in Tokyo deny that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will start China visit on Sept 3, the day Beijing holds military parade.
China is urging Japan to repent in concrete terms after Shinzo Abe downplays his country's aggression in long-awaited WWII statement.
After flying his kite for months, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued a statement about Japanese aggression in World War II with phrases that had rarely appeared in his narratives of his country's war history.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had the opportunity to continue along the same path as his predecessor, Tomiichi Murayama, and apologize for Japan's past aggression.