On July 4, 2006, Assistant Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai met with the Japanese young journalists delegation, elaborating China's positions on their questions related to China's policy towards Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine, the six-party talks, the Iranian nuclear issue, as well as China's development endeavor and its purposes and objectives of hosting the Olympics.

The delegation, which is composed of young journalists from six media institutions including the Kyodo News agency, visits China at the invitation of the Information Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Besides Beijing, they will also visit Qinghai.