On October 18th, Mme. Gu Xiulian, President of China-ASEAN Association (CAA) met with Mr. Le Luo Minh, Secretary General of ASEAN.
Mme.Gu Xiulian briefed Le Luo Minh on the CAA and its exchange programs such as the Conference on ASEAN-China People-to-People Friendship Organizations, Friendship Motorcade Tour, Bringing-Light Tour, Women Entrepreneurs Start-up Forum, Youth Cultural Exchange and so on. Mme. Gu expressed that the China-ASEAN Strategic Partnership has enjoyed a “golden decade” since its establishment and will harvest more outcomes in the next “diamond decade”. The CAA is willing to keep contacts and enhance cooperation with ASEAN Secretariat to make more contributions to the people-to-people friendship between the two sides.
Le Luo Minh thanked President Gu’s welcoming and introduction and sang a high praise to the CAA’s activities. He indicated that to strengthen the political mutual-trust and promote the people-to-people exchange are the two major components of ASEAN-China relations. The people-to-people exchange plays an important role to reinforce the political trust and CAA is believed to make some positive efforts in this regard.
Ms.Yang Xiuping, Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN was present in the meeting.
