ACC Secretary-General Met with Deputy Director-General of Hubei Foreign Affairs Office

On 3 June 2016, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of the ASEAN-China Centre (ACC)， met with Mr. Feng Xiguo, Deputy Director-General of the Foreign Affairs Office of Hubei Provincial Government of China. Mr. Dai Ping, Director of the Foreign Affairs Office attended the meeting.

Mr. Feng Xiguo extended his warm welcome to Secretary-General Yang for attending the Forum on Global Production Capacity and Business Cooperation to be held in Wuhan, Hubei Province and expressed gratitude for ACC’s support to this forum. He said that as an inland province, Hubei committed itself to promoting its development by expanding opening-up and international cooperation. With the in-depth advancing of  the Belt and Road Initiative, Hubei looked forward to  promoting production capacity cooperation with ASEAN countries and the world at large. It was expected that ACC could continuously provide support and assistance to Hubei in the days to come. 

Secretary-General Yang gave a brief introduction to the job of ACC including the ASEAN-China Week in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of ASEAN-China dialogue relations. She noted that ACC, since its inception, had been actively implementing the important consensus reached by the leaders of ASEAN countries and China, and promoting functional cooperation in the areas of trade, investment, education, culture and tourism. Local cooperation had been an important part of the all-round ASEAN-China relations. ACC would continuously facilitate friendly exchange between Hubei and ASEAN. By fully tapping the potential of cooperation, ACC would work jointly with Hubei to  promote ASEAN-China relations to bring more benefits to the people.