25 Years of China-Asean

Relations and Its Outlook

July 29th, 2016

 Overview
- 10 + China close to 1.9 billion People
- 14 million SKM
- Combined GDP close to 13 trillion US
dollars

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 China-ASEAN Cooperation
in 25 years
- Political relations enhanced
- Economic cooperation and trade leaped
forward
- Cooperation in education, culture and
tourism deepened

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 Reasons
- we are shaping the Asia-Pacific
cooperation structure.
- we are moving forward Asia-Pacific
cooperation process.
- we are leading Asia-Pacific
cooperation agenda.

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 Building of ASEAN Community
• provides a fresh opportunity to further deepen
China-ASEAN economic cooperation and
trade.
• injects vitality into the upgrading of China-
ASEAN Free Trade Area.
• facilitates negotiation process of Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

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 Aspects of Our Efforts
- Continue enhancing mutual trust
- Keep the orientation of our strategic cooperation
- Tailor out our cooperation to mutual development needs
- Develop sub-regional cooperation to complement the
integrated cooperation
- Speed up the building of basic connectivity
- Foster new highlights in maritime cooperation
- Ensure "double security" in traditional and nontraditional
areas
- Explore new areas of cooperation in people-to-people
exchanges
- Maintain order for regional cooperation

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Maritime Silk Road in Context of
Global Maritime Fulcrum

- What is MSR?
- Why MSR?
Power for China's reform and opening up
Opportunities for common development
Energy for upgrade of Asian Regional
cooperation

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Three Key Words for Belt & Road

- Mutual Trust
- Connectivity
- Early Harvest

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What's the connection between
MSR and GMF?

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Some thoughts on bilateral cooperation

• Maritime infrastructure and connectivity

cooperation
• Maritime economy cooperation
• Industry, investment and finance cooperation
• Maritime culture and tourism cooperation
• Maritime human resources and capacity
building

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 Problems and Challenges

• How to tackle the global economic

slowdown
• How to achieve effective economic
policy adjustment
• How to overcome bottle-neck of
cooperation

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 Conclusion

• Old Chinese saying goes, “Close

neighbors are dearer than distant
relatives.”

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