On March 14, Zhang Zhijun, member of the Standing Committee of CPC Jilin Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Changchun Municipal Committee, met Shinoda Toshio, Executive Director of Marubeni Corporation (Japan) and General Representative of the Chinese market in Changchun.

Marubeni Corporation is a representative Japanese general trading company and a Global 500 enterprise. It has developed cooperation with Changchun in many fields over the years.

Zhang Zhijun welcomed Shinoda Toshio. He said that at present, Changchun is fully implementing the spirit of important speech and instructions by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his visit to Jilin, and it is accelerating the promotion of "city linkage in six areas" guided by the construction of Changchun Modern Metropolitan Circle, so as to actively build a new platform for opening-up. Hopefully, by further expanding the space for cooperation, the two sides can deepen the planning for the projects in such areas as "new four modernization" of automobiles, new energy, modern agriculture and massive medical health and strengthen the people-to-people exchanges, so as to push the economic and trade cooperation of the two sides into a new stage of development.

Shinoda Toshio said that Changchun enjoys a broad prospect for development, and Marubeni Corporation will strengthen the exchanges and cooperation with Changchun in various fields and work together with Changchun to develop and expand the international markets by further playing its advantages, so as to achieve mutual benefits and win-win outcomes.

Jiang Baozhong and Li Weishu participated in the activities.