Scope wide for Sino-ASEAN ties

Official says more cooperation will bolster regional stability, prosperity

As China continues to promote high-quality development and expand high-level opening-up, its cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will see broader opportunities and further boost stability and prosperity in the region as well as across the world, according to a senior official.

Shi Zhongjun, secretary-general of the ASEAN-China Center, said that China and the ASEAN countries, which are all key members of the Global South and at a critical stage of pursuing national revitalization, represent development opportunities for each other.

"I have visited the 10 ASEAN member states since taking office in 2022. What impressed me the most is that all of them, regardless of their distinct national conditions and different cooperation priorities, have the same strong desire to collaborate with China," he told China Daily in a written interview.