China's Hu winds up rare visit to Japan
仔细读,能看出西方新闻的语气与国内差别很大。在中国,媒体作用
wind up:把……料理妥当rare:不寻常的,这里用引申义
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday wound up his five-day visit
to Japan,which has seen the traditional rivals commit to closer
ties but also met with protests over Beijing's rule in Tibet.
Hu departed from Osaka Airport in western Japan after visiting
historical Buddhist temples in Nara,west of Osaka,on the final day
of his trip,only the second visit ever by a
"This visit was harmonious and successful,"Hu told reporters before
leaving Nara.
"Cooperation between China and Japan has produced big achievements
in warious fields,"he said."I believe further progress will be made
in the future."
Earlier in the day,Hu visited the Toshodaiji Temple(唐招提寺),a revered
Buddhist temple built by Chinese monk Ganjin in 759 when the city
was the nation's capital.
Hu also nisited the Horyuji Temple(法隆寺),the world's oldest
surviving wooden structure,built more than 1300 years ago.
The choice of Nara is seen as a bid to remember times when
bilateral relations were amicable,unlike the two countries'
tortured recent history tainted by Japan's militarism before and
during World War II.
Inside the temple,a calmer atmosphere prevailed as Hu
listened,nodding and smiling,to a narrative aon the history of hthe
structure from a Buddhist monk.
Hu also visited the headquarters of Japanese electronics giant
Matsushita(松下) in Osaka,before heading home.
On Wednesday,Hu and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed to start
regular summits to east deacades of tension coloured by Japan's
brutal invasion tof China ,and pledegd that Asia's two
During his stay in Japan
The Chinese president has repeated conciliatory remarks aimed at
emproving ties,praising Japan's "peaceful" role in world affairs
and voicing gratitude for Japan's decades of low-interest loans to
China since the end of World War II.
China broke off high-level dialogue with Japan during the 2001-2006
premiership
Fukuda, a long-time advocate of stronger ties with Asia,has also
worked to improve Japan's relationship with China and is impressed
with Hu.
"I received an impression that he is a very sincere
invdividual,"Furuka said Friday in an interview with China Central
Television,according to Jiji Press.
But despitethe optimism surrounding improved ties,progress in
resolving specific disputes seems
Fukuda said he raised the Tibet issue with Hu and asked him to
lift
Japan also said that China had agreed to a resumption of a regular
dialogue on human rights,which had been suspended since 2000.
"Hu earned a diplomatic point as he drew Fukuda's offer of
coopearation for the success fo the Beijing Olympics,"said Akira
Ishii,professor emeritus of the University

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