Vice-Foreign Minister Le Yucheng will host the 15th round of China-Japan strategic dialogue with Japanese Vice-Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang announced on Friday.

They will have an in-depth exchange of opinions over China-Japan ties and international and regional issues of shared concern, Geng said, adding the dialogue is an important channel through which the two countries' foreign ministries conduct high-level strategic communications.

Bilateral ties are improving in general, and China hopes the two countries will further build consensus and strengthen mutual trust through the new round of dialogue so as to create favorable conditions for the implementation of major bilateral political agendas, Geng said.