From Nov.30th to Dec.2nd, the 8th CACPPFO was held in Manila of the Philippines. Mme. Gu Xiulian, President of China-ASEAN Association (CAA), CPAFFC Vice President Feng Zuoku, Mme. Hua Fuzhou, President of China Association for Labor Studies(CALS) and local government delegates from Beijing, Sichuan, Chengdu and Guangdong with ASEAN countries participants, altogether about 100 people, attended the conference.
The Conference was hosted by the Association for Philippines-China Understanding (APCU) with the theme of “Achieving Progress and Unity in Diversity”. President Gu Xiulian addressed in the opening ceremony and made positive comments on the role of the Conference to lift the China-ASEAN people-to-people friendship and trust to a new high, promote the cooperation to a new stage and push the interaction of the bilateral relations in multilateral platform to a new level. During the Conference, forums on China-ASEAN public health and laboring and employment were also held. On the closing ceremony, the 11 organizations from China and ASEAN countries signed the Manila Declaration and agreed that the next conference be held in Chengdu.
The conference was the last one in the first round of 10+1 cooperation mechanism and after the discussion and negotiation with 10 friendship organizations from ASEAN countries, the CAA raised the idea to upgrade the Conference to “Conference on ASEAN-China People-to-People Friendship” which will be held in every two years and the Leaders’ Meeting for ASEAN-China People-to-People Friendship Organizations be held in the year between two Conferences.
