Transportation networks should also be strengthened to "guarantee the connection of domestic and international cycles", including the home market and those in countries taking part in the Belt and Road Initiative, he added.
Toshihiro Nikai, secretary-general of the Liberal Democrats, and Yoshihisa Inoue, secretary-general of Komeito, led the Japanese delegation.
Transactions through the China UnionPay network rose to 93.9 trillion yuan (.7 trillion) last year, making up a larger share of the global bank card clearing market, according to a report released by the operator.
Travel Market Report, an online business publication from the American Marketing Group, also lists China among its top destinations for 2018.
Trade between the world's second-largest economy and CEE countries increased by 15.9 percent last year to billion, according to China's Ministry of Commerce.
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Tourists wear thick down jackets walking on Chang'an Street in Beijing. [Photo by Du Jia/For China Daily]
Tokyo Electric Power Co, the plant's operator, says it needs to free up space so as to continue work to decommission the facility. It is widely expected that the company will gradually release the water into the ocean following a government decision allowing it to do so, but the company remains vague on when the process will begin.
Tourism officials and health inspectors have descended on luxury hotels in Beijing and Shanghai as well as across Fujian, Jiangxi and Guizhou provinces to check on hygiene standards.
Traffic police in Qingdao, Shandong province, have been closing a local road every night to give people a place to exercise and jog safely.