Premier Wen Jiabao met with Mitarai Fujio, president of the Japanese organizing committee of the "Japan-China Year of Cultural and Sports Exchanges" on Monday.

Japan will organize a series of activities in China in March and activities organized by the Chinese side in Japan will start in mid-April in Tokyo.

Wen is also scheduled to visit Japan in April.

On the same day, Wen also met with a delegation formed by officials from international organizations, economists and scholars who are in Beijing to attend the 2007 China Development Forum (CDF).

(Xinhua News Agency March 20, 2007)