Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong (R rear)
presides over the second meeting of the cultural and people-to-people exchange
mechanism between China and Indonesia at the vice premier's level with
Indonesian Coordinating Minister of Human Development and Culture Puan
Maharani, in Guiyang, capital city of southwest China's Guizhou Province, Aug.
1, 2016. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
In the
letter, Li said people-to-people exchanges, including education exchanges, are
emerging as a new pillar in China-ASEAN relations and showing broad prospects..
This year
marks the 25th anniversary of the China-ASEAN relationship. Li said China and
ASEAN are good neighbors and partners, and communicate and cooperate in various
fields.
Education
is a fundamental way to cultivate the younger generation and create a better
life, Li said.
This year
is China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Year, Li said, and it will be marked by
nearly 300 activities across China and ASEAN.
China is
willing to work with ASEAN to provide more talent and intellectual support for
each other to boost a closer China-ASEAN community of shared destiny, Li said.
In a
congratulatory message, Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith expressed his hope
that people-to-people exchanges will become a new pillar of strategic
partnership between China and ASEAN.
Chinese
Vice Premier Liu Yandong made a keynote speech during Monday's opening ceremony
and she said education had been one of the highlights of increasing cooperation
between the two sides in recent years.
China and
ASEAN have hosted Education Cooperation Week for eight consecutive years, and
have signed over 800 cooperation deals, according to Liu.
She said
that China and ASEAN can share resources and draw on each others' strengths in
education for mutual benefit.
She
suggested the two sides could improve cooperation to draw on each others'
strategies, build branding to expand the influence of education week, and
enrich forms of exchanges to lift the level of cooperation in basic education,
vocational education and linguistic education.
Liu also
proposed a China-ASEAN maritime silk road scholarship to elevate student
exchanges between China and ASEAN.
Over
1,400 people from China and ASEAN countries attended the opening ceremony on
Monday.
Later on
Monday, Liu hosted the second meeting of the cultural and people-to-people
exchange mechanism between China and Indonesia at the vice premier's level with
Indonesian Coordinating Minister of Human Development and Culture Puan
Maharani.
Liu said
that the mechanism, the first high-level cultural and people-to-people
exchanges mechanism between China and developing countries, has achieved
fruitful results over the past year in such areas as culture, education,
health, sports, tourism, youth, and media.
The first
meeting of this mechanism was held in May last year in Jakarta.
The two
sides should adopt strategic thinking and take a long-term perspective, so as to
make China-Indonesia cultural and people-to-people exchanges an ideal example
of cooperation between China and ASEAN, Liu said.
Liu and
Puan jointly witnessed the signing of eight cooperation deals covering areas
including education, technology, culture, and forestry.
Xinhua
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