Lawmakers from China's National People's Congress (NPC) and Japan's House of Representatives agreed on Monday to advance the healthy and stable development of bilateral strategic and mutually beneficial relations.

The pledge came out of the seventh meeting of a cooperation committee between the NPC, China's top legislative body, and the House of Representatives of the Japanese Diet.

Li Jianguo, vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, and Kodaira Tadamasa, the head of the Japanese delegation, co-chaired the meeting, according to a news release by the NPC.

(Source: Xinhua)