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TOKYO, Dec. 5-- Business leaders, former senior officials, experts and scholars from China and Japan called for deepening economic cooperation at the third round of Sino-Japanese Entrepreneurs and Former High-level Officials Dialogue that wrapped up here on Tuesday. Zeng Peiyan, former Chinese vice premier and chairman of China Center for International Economic Exchanges, and former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda were among the participants of the dialogue. The two sides held frank discussions on new ideas of bilateral economic and trade cooperation and reached consensus on various issues, including enhancing trade, investment and financial cooperation and jointly exploring third party markets. The Chinese participants briefed their Japanese counterparts on the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) as well as the achievements of Chinese economy and structural readjustment over the past five years. They said that bilateral economic cooperation is now facing a window for new development. The Japanese side, for its part, said the 19th CPC congress specified the challenges facing China as well as the ways to tackle these challenges and has sent to the world the signal that China will keep boosting its opening-up drive. The dialogue, which started on Monday, was very timely and helpful for Japanese entrepreneurs to understand the new phase of China's development, the Japanese participants said. | 
