I am very much honored to be invited to the “China’s 70-year Development and the Construction of the Community with a Shared Future for Mankind”.Let me start with introducing my institution. JCEA (Japan-China Economic Association) was established with a view to promoting economic ties between the two countries in 1972, immediately after Japanese prime minister Tanaka Kakuei and Chinese prime minister Zhou Enlai had announced the epoch-making Joint Statement on the Normalization of bilateral relations between Japan and China. As you know, economic ties including trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), together with two-way communications and exchange of personnel, constitute the main pillar of the bilateral relations. That is why JCEA was set up by the joint initiatives of MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) and Japanese business circles, among others, Mr. Okazaki Kaheita, then the president of ANA (All Nippon Airway). He served as the life-long adviser to JCEA. He was absolutely instrumental in realizing normalization. Given the lack of diplomatic channels, he repeatedly visited China to see Chinese leaders, among other, the prime minister Zhou Enlai. Based on the mutual trust and respect, they discussed to find ways in order to overcome a series of problems and difficulties which had appeared on the way to the normalization.I had the fortune to be able to hear the speech of the president Xi-Jinping just in front of his excellency. On 23 May 2015 at the Grand Hall of the People where he welcomed 3000 member tourism and culture exchange delegation from Japan, the Chinese president Xi Jinping delivered a heart-felt speech on the friendship between China and Japan, in which he specifically referred to the name of Mr. Okazaki as an old friend of China who had dug the well.By the way, I joined MITI in 1970 to work there more than 30 years, mainly in charge of industrial policy and energy policy.