FUZHOU, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – February 4, 2024 – The launching ceremony of 2024 “ASEAN-China People’s Exchange Year” was held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province on February 2.
“Year of ASEAN-China People-to-People Exchanges” 2024 Begins
Shen Yiqin said that over the past ten years, China and ASEAN have written a new chapter in their pragmatic and friendly cooperation and achieved fruitful results in people-to-people exchanges, which has become a striking example promoting the building of a community with a shared future for humanity.
Shen Yiqin stressed the need to maintain integrity and innovation, further deepen people-to-people exchanges in such fields as culture, tourism, education, youth, sports and women, consolidate the foundations of mutual trust, promote mutually beneficial cooperation and facilitate inclusion. and mutual learning, continuously increase the breadth, depth and enthusiasm of people-to-people exchanges, promote mutual understanding and friendship between the people of the two sides, jointly build a friendly homeland, and inject vitality into China-ASEAN cooperation.
Kikeo Khaykhamphithoune, Deputy Prime Minister of Laos, read a congratulatory letter from Laotian Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone and delivered a speech.
Zhou Zuyi, secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial People’s Congress, attended the launching ceremony and delivered a speech. He said Fujian enjoys deep ties with ASEAN and has a solid foundation for strengthening people-to-people exchanges between the two sides. Fujian will fully implement the important demands made by Chinese President Xi Jinping, promote the expansion of multi-level, multi-domain and multi-channel people-to-people exchanges, work together for sister city exchanges, promote cultural and tourism cooperation . , and facilitate people-to-people connectivity, continuously improve mutual understanding and friendship, and demonstrate Fujian’s responsibility in the common effort to create co-existing civilizations of China and ASEAN.
The launching ceremony of the “ASEAN-China People-to-People Exchange Year” 2024 was guided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and co-hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Government people of Fujian province. Zhao Long, deputy secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and governor of Fujian Province, provincial leaders Lin Baojin, Guo Ningning and Wu Xielin attended the event. Other participants include heads of state ministries and commissions, heads of sister provinces, state leaders of ASEAN countries, envoys and heads of friendship organizations, as well as representatives economic sectors, think tanks and media and sister cities.
On the day of the launching ceremony, Shen Yiqin collectively met with the leaders of ASEAN countries present and held a bilateral meeting with Kikeo Khaykhamphithoune.
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