长期以来，民间外交开展的大量友好活动发挥民间先行、以民促官的特殊作用，有力推动了中日邦交正常化的实现。
Over a long period of time, the numerous friendly exchanges conducted through people-to-people diplomacy had played an extraordinary role in leading the way toward official relations and promoting official relations by unofficial means. And this significantly helped the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic relations.