A high-ranking Japanese official is in Beijing to coordinate a summit between Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The secretary general of Japan's National Security Secretariat, Akiba Takeo, arrived at an airport in the Chinese capital Thursday afternoon.

Akiba is expected to talk with Chinese officials, including Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee.

Japanese officials say Kishida is considering holding talks with Xi in the US city of San Francisco on the sidelines of the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum scheduled for the next week. They say one idea is to have a summit next Thursday.

If a Japan-China summit is held, it will be the first in about a year. Kishida and Xi are likely to exchange views on pending issues including China's import suspension of Japanese seafood.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Thursday that he has no information to provide on the matter.

Wang stressed that China hopes Japan will fulfill its promise of building a constructive and stable relationship, and hopes Japan will create an environment and atmosphere necessary for pressing ahead with improvement and development of relations, and high-level interactions.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu said that nothing has been decided at the moment about a Japan-China summit. He reiterated that regarding relations with China, Japan will continue to say what it should, and it calls on China to act responsibly. He also said Japan wants to closely communicate with China at all levels based on its policy of promoting dialogue and cooperating on shared challenges.