Mr. Song Jingwu, vice president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) met in Beijing with Mr. Tetsuro Homma, senior managing executive officer of Panasonic, CEO of China & Northeast Asia Company of Panasonic, regional head for China & Northeast Asia on May 27th. Mme. Zhu Dan, deputy director-general of Department of Japanese Affairs of CPAFFC, Mme. Deng Lan, deputy secretary-general of China Friendship Foundation for Peace and Development (CFFPD), attended the meeting.

Vice President Song congratulated Panasonic on the founding of China & Northeast Asia Company in China and spoke highly of important contributions Panasonic had made for a long time to China’s reform and opening-up and the friendly cause between China and Japan. Song said, Panasonic is not only a well-known multinational corporation in the world, but also is one of the first Japanese enterprises that participated in China’s reform and opening-up. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening-up. Mr. Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of Panasonic, was awarded China reform friendship medal, which fully demonstrated the highly commendation for the outstanding contributions Konosuke Matsushita and Panasonic had made to the cause of China’s reform and opening up. With the joint efforts by the governments and various circles of the two countries, the Sino-Japanese relations had returned to normal track and achieved more results, and the economic cooperation between the two countries showed positive signs. Vice President Song sincerely expected Panasonic to adhere to keeping friendship with China and take the opportunities of supply-side structural reform, consumption upgrading, co-building the Belt and Road cooperation，the founding of China & Northeast Asia Company of Panasonic to deepen cooperation in the fields of energy saving and environmental conservation, technological innovation and high-end manufacturing, and to work together to maintain multilateralism and free trading, so as to continue exerting a leading role in the new term economic cooperation between China and Japan.

Mr. Tetsuro Homma made an introduction about the cause Panasonic had developed in China and the relevant institution of China & Northeast Asia Company. He said, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening up and the 100th anniversary of the founding of Panasonic last year, Mr. Konosuke Matsushita was awarded China reform friendship medal. He was deeply honored and encouraged. Panasonic pays high attention to the business and the humanity and culture exchanges with China. The founding of China & Northeast Asia Company this time is just to deepen the economic cooperation with China and further develop the humanity and culture exchanges with China. He would like to carry forward tradition and make more contributions to the stable relations and the friendship for generations of the two countries.

Photographed by Wang Lin