On November 16, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference that many people on social media today reposted that the Chinese women’s volleyball team won the first world championship podium in Osaka with a seven-match victory 40 years ago. This is the beginning. The glorious past of the "five consecutive championships" of the Chinese women's volleyball team.

The spirit of the motherland supremacy, unity and cooperation, tenacious struggle, and never-say-fail women's volleyball team moved us, and it has also become a powerful spiritual driving force for the Chinese nation to forge ahead.

  Zhao Lijian said that China and Japan have been conducting extensive and in-depth exchanges and cooperation in the field of culture and sports, leaving a lot of popular stories.

This year and next are the "China-Japan Cultural and Sports Exchange Promotion Year". Next year is the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. China will host the Beijing Winter Olympics.

It is hoped that both parties will take this opportunity to plan and implement cultural exchange activities and create a positive and friendly social atmosphere for China-Japan relations.

(Produced by Le Xiaomin)

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]