On 19 October 2015, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of the ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) met with H.E. Mme. Khemmany Pholsena, Minister of Industry and Commerce of Laos in Vientiane. She also met with the economic and commercial counsellor of Chinese Embassy in Laos Mr. Zhao Wenyu during the meeting.
Secretary-General Yang said that China-Laos Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Partnership had maintained a long-term growth and achieved fruitful results. The two countries had kept close coordination and cooperation in regional and international affairs. ASEAN-China Strategic Partnership entered the "Diamond Decade". 2016 would mark the 25th anniversary of ASEAN-China dialogue relations and at the same time Laos would be the rotating Chair of ASEAN. The Chinese government clearly stated its support for Laos' efforts of ASEAN chairmanship. China hoped to work closely with Laos and to promote economic and commercial cooperation with ASEAN, strengthening connectivity, Lancang-Mekong River Cooperation and people-to-people exchange, so as to realize a new development of ASEAN-China cooperation.
Secretary-General Yang introduced the work of ACC, mentioning that she led the delegation group of Chinese entrepreneurs to visit Laos with a view to increasing direct contact among enterprises and seeking opportunities for cooperation. ACC was the only inter-governmental organization between China and ASEAN. Its main responsibility was to implement the consensus reached by the leaders of both sides and facilitate friendly cooperation. ACC was ready to cooperate closely with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of Laos and make new contribution to promoting Laos-China and ASEAN-China tangible cooperation.
Minister Khemmany stated that Laos fully supported the "Belt and Road" initiative, and hoped to match Lao national development agenda with this initiative. By the end of this year, the ASEAN Community would be fully realized. She hoped that Laos and China would strengthen enterprises capacity building, cooperation among the SMEs, and trade facilitation for Lao enterprises could to better share the results of regional economic integration. Minister Khemmany appreciated the work done by ACC and hoped that in the future process of facilitating Laos-China economic and commercial cooperation, ACC would continue to support the Ministry tremendously.
On the same day, Secretary-General Yang met with Chinese Ambassador to Laos H.E. Mr. Guan Huabin and exchanged views on strengthening ASEAN-China relations.
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