3. 3,000 Japanese tourists visited China

Tourists from Japan are visiting the tumuluses in Turfan, Xinjiang Uigur autonomous region during the 14th China Silk Road Turfan Grape Festival. [Photo/IC]

On May 23, President Xi Jinping attended the China-Japan Friendly Exchange Conference and delivered an important speech at the Great Hall of the People. Vice-Premier Wang Yang and State Council member Yang Jiechi also attended the conference. The visit of a 3,000-member Japanese tourism delegation led by Tosihiro Nikai, general council chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, to China showed tourism diplomacy played an important role in boosting interactions and exchanges between people and serving the country's overall diplomatic agenda.