Premier Wen Jiabao called yesterday for China and Japan to seize the opportunity to realize the sustainable, stable and healthy development of bilateral economic and trade relations.

China and Japan are important trading partners, and strengthening economic cooperation is conducive to the strategic mutually beneficial relationship between the two countries, Wen told visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura.

Komura, who is on his first visit to China since taking office last September, led the Japanese delegation to the first China-Japan high-level economic dialogue held on Saturday afternoon in Beijing.