On the afternoon of December 28, 2007, Chinese President Hu Jintao met with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda at Diaoyutai's Yangyuanzhai Room.

During the meeting, Hu spoke highly of the sound momentum of improvement and development in the current Sino-Japanese relations. "To develop long-term, stable and good neighborly relations between China and Japan and achieve the goals of peaceful coexistence, friendship for generations, mutually beneficial cooperation and common development are the common anticipations of the two peoples, as well as the duty of the two nations' political leaders," Hu said. China is ready to work with Japan to take high-level visits and the 30th anniversary of the peace and friendship treaty as opportunities to advance bilateral relations, Hu said. Hu stressed the need to abide by the three political documents on bilateral ties, and follow the spirit of "taking history as a mirror and looking forward to the future". He said both sides shall do something concrete to enhance dialogue and consultation, strengthen mutual understanding and trust, and appropriately handle major sensitive matters in bilateral ties. He urged both sides to further advance bilateral all-round, multiple-level exchanges and cooperation covering a wide area and expand common interests. Both sides should expand people-to-people exchanges especially between the youth, deepen the friendly feelings between the two peoples, build and develop Sino-Japanese strategic relations of mutual benefits and open up a new situation for good-neighborly friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation, he added.

Fukuda thanked for Chinese side's thoughtful arrangements for his visit, saying that he has held comprehensive and in-depth discussions on bilateral ties with the Chinese side during his visit so far and reached broad consensus, which increased understanding and facilitated cooperation. Agreeing with Hu Jintao's views on bilateral ties, Fukuda expressed wishes to work with China to strengthen cooperation, expand exchanges and build up mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples so as to achieve new results in the bilateral strategic, mutually beneficial relations.

State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo and Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cui Tiankai attended the meeting.