On March 21, 2025 local time, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi in Tokyo.

Wang Yi said, China and Japan have restarted the process of improving and developing bilateral relations. China is ready to work with Japan to deliver on the important common understandings reached at the Lima meeting between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, and make joint efforts to comprehensively advance the China-Japan strategic relationship of mutual benefit in accordance with the principles and directions stipulated in the four political documents between the two countries. The four political documents between China and Japan have laid the political and legal foundation for China-Japan relations, among which rules have been laid down on the proper handling of historical issues and the Taiwan question. Wang Yi expressed the hope that the Japanese side will establish a correct understanding of China, honor its promises on major issues of principle, eliminate clamors and interference, and promote the sound and steady development of bilateral relations along the right track.

Yoshimasa Hayashi said that Japan's position on the Taiwan question, based on the 1972 Japan-China Joint Statement, remains unchanged. Japan is ready to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields and looks forward to the fruitful results of the Japan-China High-Level Economic Dialogue held after a lapse of six years, so as to contribute to the sustained development of Japan-China relations and bring more benefits to the two peoples.