STORY: China-ASEAN Future Relations Forum held in Indonesia
SHOOTING TIME: June 19, 2024
DATELINE: June 20, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:30
LOCATION: Jakarta
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the China-ASEAN Future Relations Forum held in Indonesia
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): HOU YANQI, Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): KAO KIM HOURN, Secretary-general of ASEAN
4. various of the China-ASEAN Future Relations Forum held in Indonesia

STORYLINE:

The China-ASEAN Future Relations Forum was held at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia on Wednesday.

Participants called for enhancing China-ASEAN relations and promoting the construction of a closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): HOU YANQI, Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN
"As a friendly neighbor and a trustworthy long-term comprehensive strategic partner, China is ready to forge greater synergy with ASEAN in development strategies, firmly support its community building and the ASEAN-centered regional architecture, and work together for common development and peace, stability and prosperity in the region."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): KAO KIM HOURN, Secretary-general of ASEAN
"(Let us) enhance mutual trust, overcome our challenges, and foster closer cooperation under the ASEAN-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to ensure that our peoples in our region will enjoy sustainable peace and prosperity for the present and the future."

China and ASEAN have been each other's largest trading partners for four consecutive years.

According to China's General Administration of Customs (GAC), in the first five months of this year, ASEAN remained China's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade value reaching 2.77 trillion yuan (about 381.53 billion U.S. dollars), accounting for 15.8 percent of China's total foreign trade value.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Jakarta.
(XHTV)