Secretary-General Yang Xiuping Attended the Welcoming Ceremony Held by Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Education of Myanmar

On 27 June 2016, a Welcoming Ceremony for guests participating in the Handover Ceremony of Vocational Equipment was held by U Kyaw Zwa Soe, Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Education of Myanmar in Yangon, Myanmar. H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC), U Sein Win Aung, Chairman of Myanmar China Friendship Association (MCFA), Mr. Peng Fang, Vice Chairman of China-Myanmar Friendship Association (CMFA), Mr. Tian Shanting, Cultural Counsellor of Chinese Embassy in Myanmar, and Ms. Zhu Zhiyan, Manager of International Department of Yalong Company, attended the ceremony.

Secretary-General Yang Xiuping briefed U Kyaw Zwa Soe on ACC’s work in promoting ASEAN-China functional cooperation in various fields especially in the area of educational exchange and cooperation. She said that ACC would be focusing on 19 flagship projects this year, among which 4 projects were related to educational exchange, to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of ASEAN-China Dialogue Relations and the ASEAN-China Year of Educational Exchange. Since this year, ACC had successively held the ASEAN-China Student Day and ASEAN-China Forum of Youth and Humanities, and had been engaged in preparing for the 1st ASEAN-China Youth Summer Camp and China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week. ACC would maintain close communication and coordination with the Ministry of Education of Myanmar and make more joint efforts to further China-Myanmar and ASEAN-China relations to a new level.

U Kyaw Zwa Soe spoke highly of ACC’s efforts to facilitate the implementation of the Handover Ceremony, expressing his appreciation on behalf of the Ministry of Education of Myanmar for ACC’s support to the education of Myanmar. He said, Ministry of Education of Myanmar attached great importance to the educational exchanges and cooperation especially youth exchanges between the two sides. He hoped that ACC would continue to play a bridging role in contacts with educational institutions in Myanmar and carry out more joint projects that met the demands of both sides to train more technical talents for the social-economic development of Myanmar and boost the friendship between the two peoples.