国内英语资讯:China, ASEAN to formulate strategic partnership vision toward 2030_时事

国内英语资讯:China, ASEAN to formulate strategic partnership vision toward 2030

On Monday, he proposed the alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative with the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025 to deepen China-ASEAN cooperation in such areas as trade, finance, infrastructure, rules and regulations, and personnel.

Li said China and ASEAN should conduct closer high-level exchanges, strengthen policy dialogue, deepen political security cooperation to advance mutual understanding and trust.

He urged all ASEAN nations to ratify the upgraded China-ASEAN free trade area (FTA) agreement as soon as possible so as to bring benefits to both sides at an early date.

Advances should be made in Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations, implementation of key international industrial capacity cooperation projects, financial cooperation between China and ASEAN, he added.

On people-to-people exchanges, Li said China will provide government scholarships to more than 20,000 ASEAN students in the next three years. China will offer training courses to 3,000 candidates from ASEAN in 2018 and boost cooperation in capacity building in such areas as finance, agriculture, science and technology, culture, public administration and transportation.

Li said China agrees to designate the year of 2018 as the China-ASEAN Year of Innovation and will, in the coming five years, invite 500 young ASEAN scientists to China for short-term scientific research projects, train 1,200 ASEAN scientific research and management personnel and launch 10 joint research labs.