ACC Secretary-General Met with Director General of Guangxi International Expositions Bureau

Source:ASEAN-China Centre

On 31 May 2016, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) met with Mr. Wang Lei, Director General of Guangxi International Expositions Bureau, and exchanged views on further deepening cooperation. Ms. Huang Yuan and Ms. Yang Yanyan, Deputy Director Generals of the Bureau were present at the meeting.

Secretary-General Yang introduced ACC’s recent work. She noted that to commemorate the 25th anniversary of ASEAN-China dialogue relations, ACC held the “ASEAN- China Week” from 23 to 30 May 2016. During this week, a series of activities were held, including the Symposium of ASEAN Economic Community, Tourism Cooperation Forum, ASEAN Food Festival, China-ASEAN Students Day, etc. Those activities were supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, the Embassies of the ASEAN Member States and other organizations, and had achieved good results. She appreciated the role of Guangxi International Expositions Bureau in enhancing ASEAN-China economic and trade cooperation, and expressed that ACC was ready to work with the Bureau to hold activities such as China-ASEAN Expo so as to contribute to the promotion of China-ASEAN and Guangxi-ASEAN functional cooperation.

Director General Wang expressed his gratitude to ACC for its long support to the Bureau. He appreciated ACC’s creative efforts in promoting ASEAN-China functional cooperation. He noted that Guangxi was a frontier and window of China’s opening-up policy and its cooperation with ASEAN countries. Guangxi was striving to build the Great International Passage facing ASEAN countries for the development of Southwestern part of China. The Bureau would like to further cooperate and coordinate with ACC, to lift the ASEAN-China cooperation to a higher level together.