On May 15, 2010, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met in Gyeongju, the Republic of Korea with his Japanese counterpart Katsuya Okada on the sidelines of the fourth trilateral foreign ministers' meeting of China, Japan and South Korea.

Yang said the China-Japan relations had taken on a good momentum of development since the beginning of this year, citing the meeting between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Washington last month on the sidelines of Nuclear Security Summit, during which the two sides reached a series of consensus on further deepening China-Japan strategic and mutually beneficial ties. Yang said the meeting is of great significance to the development of China-Japan relations. He said China is ready to work with Japan to seize the favorable opportunity, comprehensively implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and increase input in bilateral ties from a strategic perspective, so as to push forward the ties. Yang expressed appreciation for Japan's support on ongoing Shanghai Expo, and hoped that the two nations could grasp the opportunity to strengthen people-to-people and cultural exchanges and enhance the friendly feelings between the two peoples.

Okada expressed his sincere congratulations on the successful opening of the Shanghai World Expo. He said the current Japan-China relations are developing well in general with bilateral cooperation moving on constantly. Okada said Japan is willing to make joint efforts with China to push the bilateral ties to a new height.