中国副首相と会談　対話強化を訴え―財界訪中団

　【北京時事】日中経済協会の進藤孝生会長（日本製鉄相談役）ら財界首脳は１７日、北京市内で中国の何立峰副首相と会談した。進藤氏らは１６～２１日の日程で中国を訪問。何氏に対話強化の必要性を訴えた。
　訪中団は進藤氏が団長を務め、経団連の十倉雅和会長（住友化学会長）と日本商工会議所の小林健会頭（三菱商事相談役）が最高顧問として加わっている。昨年１月の前回訪中時は李強首相と会談。日中経協によると、今回も李氏との面会を目指していたという。
　会談の冒頭、十倉氏は「両国の政府間、企業間で対話を深めていくことが重要になっている」と強調。何氏は、対中関税を引き上げたトランプ米政権を念頭に「世界的に保守主義、単独主義が台頭している」と指摘した。（2025/02/17-20:42）

Japanese business leaders including Kosei Shindo, head of the Japan-China Economic Association and adviser to Nippon Steel Corp., met with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Beijing on Monday.
   Shindo is leading a Japanese delegation on a six-day trip to China through Friday, with Masakazu Tokura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, and Ken Kobayashi, head of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, joining as top advisers.
   A similar delegation of Japanese business leaders met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in January 2024. According to the Japan-China Economic Association, business leaders sought to meet with Li in the latest trip as well.
   "It's becoming important to deepen dialogue between the governments and companies of both countries," Tokura said at the start of the meeting with He.
   The vice premier said that there is a global rise in conservatism and unilateralism, apparently bearing in mind the additional U.S. tariffs on imports from China implemented by President Donald Trump's administration.