This weekend, Chinese and Japanese finance ministers reopened their talks to discuss economic cooperation. These talks were delayed over strained relations between the two. Finance Minister Lou Jiwei planned to sit down with the Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso in Beijing. This is the fifth round of dialogue between the two countries. The last time they met was in April 2012. This was before relations became tense with disputing claims to islands in the East China Sea.
Contacts are now slowly improving.