The Japan-China financial dialogue is a framework to discuss economic cooperation between Japan and China, has been held six times so far, and is the most recently held in Yokohama last May.

About this, the Ministry of Finance has entered a final adjustment in the direction to open the seventh meeting in Beijing China in the end of this month from the end of this month.

At the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister and finance minister Aso, Liu Kun's finance minister of China and executives of the financial authorities of Japan and China are scheduled to attend.

In this dialogue, discussions will be held on the resumption of the "currency swap agreement" that mutually intertwines Yen and the Renminbi during the financial crisis.

This agreement has expired five years ago against the background of the worsening of the Japan-China relations over the Senkaku Islands, and I would like the Treasury Department to concretize resumption as a symbol of improvement.

Also, as trade friction between the United States and China is intensifying, opinions are also expected to be exchanged over the importance of free trade.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to visit China during the year, and it seems that there is an aim to set a margin on improving relationships before the end of the year.