Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday urged China and Japan to ensure the healthy and stable development of China-Japan relations. 

Wang made his remarks when meeting with former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on bilateral ties. 

During the meeting, Wang said that the current China-Japan relations continue to improve and develop, and both sides should make joint efforts to further enhance mutual political trust, deepen pragmatic cooperation, and deepen people-to-people and cultural exchanges. 

Both sides should encourage the two peoples to expand two-way exchanges, enhance mutual understanding, and channel the momentum for improving China-Japan relations to the grassroots level, said Wang. 

It is timely for Fukuda to actively advocate the establishment of a cultural exchange institution for an Asian community of a shared future, to which China would offer active support, he said. 

Fukuda said that Japan-China relations are currently seeing a sound momentum of development. 

"I have gathered people with insight from all walks of life in Japan to set up the cultural exchange institution for an Asian community of a shared future, hoping to strengthen the people-to-people and cultural exchanges between our two countries and make positive contributions to the building of the Asian community and a community with a shared future for mankind," he said. 

(With input from Xinhua)