Ties with Japan seen improving after talks

The first in-person meeting between the leaders of China and Japan in three years shows the positive sign of development of bilateral ties, but the key to develop this relationship still depends on Japan's concrete implementation of consensuses reached between the two sides, observers said.

They made the remark after President Xi Jinping met on Thursday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Bangkok, Thailand on the sidelines of the 29th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting.

Following the bilateral meeting, the two countries also reached a five-point consensus in which they pledged joint efforts to build a stable and constructive China-Japan relationship fit for the new era.