A Chinese exchange student received an official commendation on Wednesday for saving a nine-year old boy who fell into the Yodo River in Osaka City of the western Japanese prefecture of Osaka, local press reported.
The days of countries riding roughshod over China have long gone as seen by China's firm resolve and ability to defend its territorial sovereignty, said an article in the People's Daily.
A year on from Japan's announcement of its plans to "nationalize" China's Diaoyu Islands, political and economic ties between the two countries have weakened, and they will remain weak if Japan continues its stance.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Tuesday urged Japan to learn from history and adhere to peaceful development path.
Barring a change of mind on the part of the Japanese government, the territorial issue surrounding China's Diaoyu Islands seems unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.
Eighty-two years after Japan's invasion of China and one year since Japanese government's "purchase" of China's Diaoyu Islands, bilateral relations mired in history have witnessed the cooling down of economic exchanges, despite remaining hopes among business people.
Beijing vowed "zero tolerance" for any escalation by Japan that infringes on China's territorial sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands in the E.China Sea.
Japanese exports to China in the first half of this year decreased to the lowest level in four years amid strained ties between the top two economies in Asia as well as China's economic slowdown.
Foreign trade between China and Japan slumped 8.8 percent year-on-year in the seven months from January through July, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
After reading the reports and comments, I found most of the media concentrated on the point that "90 percent of citizens from each side share a negative impression of the other country."
Ordinary people in China and Japan are pessimistic about future economic cooperation between the two countries as bilateral relations worsen, a recent survey has found.
Tokyo is planning to boost surveillance in waters around the Diaoyu Islands and acquire the ability to launch pre-emptive military strikes in a defense policy update that may set off alarm bells in China. 
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