Secretary-General Yang Xiuping Attended the Welcoming Ceremony Held by Myanmar-China Friendship Association

Source:ASEAN-China Centre

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

Secretary-General Yang Xiuping highly commended MCFA’s fruitful efforts to promote the China-Myanmar and ASEAN-China friendly relations, saying that ACC would take the opportunity of the Handover Ceremony and carry out a series of activities in collaboration with MCFA and CMFA with a view to injecting new impetus into the ASEAN-China and China-Myanmar exchanges and cooperation and to boosting the people-to-people friendly exchanges.

U Sein Win Aung spoke highly of ACC’s efforts and achievements in promoting functional cooperation between China and Myanmar in various fields, thanked ACC for its positive contributions by supporting and coordinating the Handover Ceremony. He opined that MCFA was committed to promoting traditional friendship and people-to-people exchanges between both sides, saying that MCFA would maintain close links with CMFA. He added that MCFA would continue to raise concerns and increase investment in areas of education, health, humanity and youth exchanges so as to lay a more solid foundation for the friendship between the two peoples. MCFA hoped that ACC would continue to render its great support to MCFA’s work and form synergy to carry out more activities to bring benefits to the people of both sides.