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BEIJING, Dec. 19-- The upcoming China-Japan-ROK leaders' meeting to be held in China next week will chart the course for future cooperation and nurture more cooperation highlights and growth areas, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui said Thursday. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will chair the 8th China-Japan-ROK leaders' meeting in China's southwestern city of Chengdu on Dec. 24. President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will attend the meeting, and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Moon and Abe respectively in Beijing, according to Luo. LEADERS' MEETING Leaders of the three countries will step up strategic communication and jointly chart the course for future cooperation. The vision of trilateral cooperation for the next decade will be issued at the meeting, Luo said at a press briefing. The meeting will also discuss how to deepen practical cooperation and expand common interests. "Leaders of the three countries will talk about new cooperation initiatives and ideas on such areas as science and technology, innovation, sustainable development, aging, people-to-people exchanges, and 'China-Japan-ROK+X', so as to nurture more cooperation highlights and growth areas and deepen trilateral cooperation," Luo said. China, Japan and the ROK now face an important opportunity of speeding up free trade negotiations, as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a mega trade pact, has made positive progress, Luo said. | 
