The preparatory meeting was hosted by Xinhua News Agency Asia Pacific General Manager, Asia Pacific Daily News President Ju Mengjun (fourth from the left), Wenzhou New Year (first from the right), Vice President of Asia-Pacific Daily News and General Manager of New China News, and Xu Junnai, Chief Editor of Asia-Pacific Daily News. Chairman of ASEAN Investment (Singapore) International Co., Ltd. Kuang Yonggang (second from left) and executive director, CEO Sun Xia (first from left), President of New China Finance Corporation Wu Zhonghui (third from right) and Senior Vice President Yu Weiqiang (second from right) attended the meeting.

   Asia-Pacific Daily reporter Xu Jiangshan held the first preparatory meeting for the first ASEAN Development Forum on the 17th at Xinhua News Agency Asia Pacific General Branch. The preparatory meeting was hosted by Xinhua News Agency Asia Pacific General Manager and Asia-Pacific Daily News President Ju Mengjun. Vice President of Asia-Pacific Daily News, General Manager of New China News Co., Ltd. Wen New Year, Chief Editor of Asia-Pacific Daily News Xu Yinai, and ASEAN Investment (Singapore) International Co., Ltd. Chairman Yonggang Qu and executive director, CEO Sun Xia, Xinhua Finance President Wu Zhonghui and Senior Vice President Yu Weiqiang attended the meeting.

   The meeting decided to hold the first ASEAN Development Forum in Hong Kong. The time for the first meeting was set on December 12, 2014 for a period of one day. The purpose of this forum is to conduct in-depth discussions on issues such as the “ASEAN Community Building,” “China-ASEAN Relations,” “ASEAN-Hong Kong Relations,” and “ASEAN External Relations,” in the form of interactive exchanges to promote cooperation, development, and cooperation in the ASEAN region. win. By then, senior officials from ASEAN countries, experts and scholars from mainland China and Hong Kong, and ASEAN consuls in Hong Kong will come to attend the forum.

The meeting was chaired by Xinhua News Agency Asia Pacific General Manager and Asia Pacific Daily News President Ju Mengjun (center).

    Xinhua News Agency Asia-Pacific Branch chief and Asia-Pacific Daily News President Mengjun said at the meeting that ASEAN is the largest group of countries around China, and the relationship between China and ASEAN is at a new historical development starting point. The two sides have mutually beneficial strategic partnership. Is developing to depth and breadth. This year marks the beginning of the “Diamond Decade” for China and ASEAN. Both parties are committed to jointly building the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. However, faced with the background of the US “returning to Asia-Pacific” and implementing the “Asia-Pacific rebalancing” strategy, there have also been serious problems in the region that have disturbed the process of regional integration. The mutual trust between China and ASEAN has been seriously affected. In this regard, the first “ASEAN Development Forum” should focus on the development of China and ASEAN, build a platform for exchanges between China and ASEAN, ASEAN countries, play a good role as a link, and sincerely contribute to the development of China, ASEAN and the world. .

   This ASEAN Development Forum will be hosted by Asia Pacific Daily News and New China News.