On 11 July 2016, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of the ASEAN-China Centre (ACC), met with H.E. Mr. Xu Bu, Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mr. Sun Jianhua, Deputy Director of Education, Culture and Tourism Division of ACC and Mr. Sun Yan, Counsellor of the Chinese Mission to ASEAN attended the meeting.
Ambassador Xu Bu extended his warm welcome to Secretary-General Yang Xiuping for attending the reception and the gala performance to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ASEAN-China dialogue relations as well as the 2nd High Level Forum on China-ASEAN Production Capacity Cooperation. He expressed his appreciation for ACC’s role as the co-organizer of the cultural performance. He briefed on the latest development of ASEAN-China relations and expressed willingness to work closely with ACC, taking the celebration as a good chance, to promote the ASEAN-China relations to a new level.
Secretary-General Yang spoke highly of the great efforts and achievements made by the Chinese Mission to ASEAN in promoting ASEAN-China cooperation in all the areas. She expressed her gratitude for the continuous support from the Chinese Mission including organizing the members of Committee of Permanent Representatives to visit ACC and provinces of China to learn the progress of ASEAN-China exchanges and cooperation. She noted that ACC would like to make joint efforts with the Chinese Mission to push forward the in-depth development of ASEAN-China functional cooperation to bring benefits to their peoples.