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BEIJING, Oct. 26-- China and Japan should cherish and maintain positive momentum in bilateral ties development and move the relationship steadily forward on the right track, Premier Li Keqiang said during talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday in Beijing. Abe's three-day official visit to China since Thursday is the first one by a Japanese prime minister in seven years. "China attaches importance to relations with Japan," Li said. "A healthy and steady development of bilateral relationship serves the fundamental interests of the two neighboring countries and the two peoples and is crucial to the region and the world." He called on the two sides to "cherish and maintain positive momentum in bilateral ties development, further enhance benign interaction, properly handle sensitive issues including history, Taiwan and East China Sea, so as to enable a continuous improvement of bilateral relations." "China is willing to promote the ties on the basis of principles of the four political documents between the two countries and the spirit of 'taking history as a mirror and facing to the future' after bilateral relations returned to the right track," Li said. China stands ready to have dialogue with Japan in political and economic issues, enhance policy communication and coordination, intensify cooperation in areas including innovation, energy-saving and environmental protection, elderly care, finance, disaster prevention and agriculture, and build the third-party market cooperation as a new pillar of bilateral pragmatic cooperation, he said. | 
