China Youth Daily Client Beijing, August 29 (China Youth Daily·China Youth Network reporter Guoxin) At the second press conference held at the press center this morning for commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu said that China has always placed its surrounding areas in the top position in the overall diplomacy and has signed a cooperation agreement on jointly building the "Belt and Road" with 25 neighboring countries, and is the largest trading partner of 18 countries. "Cooperation with China is both respected and affordable, and has become a consensus among neighboring countries."

On the morning of August 29, the Press Center held the second press conference in the press conference hall on the second floor of the Media News Center. Ma Zhaoxu, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, introduced the relevant situation of adhering to peaceful development and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and answered questions from reporters. Photo by Li Junhui, reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network

At the meeting, a reporter asked: In April this year, the Central Peripheral Work Conference was held in Beijing. President Xi Jinping stressed that we should focus on building a community with a shared future in the surrounding areas and strive to create a new situation in surrounding areas. Can you introduce the progress of building a community with a shared future in the surrounding area?

In this regard, Ma Zhaoxu said that the Central Peripheral Work Conference held in April this year clarified the overall ideas and goals and tasks of surrounding work in the future, and emphasized the need to promote the building of a neighboring community with a shared future and work with neighboring countries to create a better future. At present, the construction of a surrounding community with a shared future is constantly making new progress and reaching a new level. President Xi Jinping has visited nearly all neighboring countries. After the 18th, 19th and 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping chose neighboring countries for his first visit, leading our country's relations with neighboring countries to the best period since modern times. my country and many neighboring countries have announced their joint efforts to build a bilateral community of shared future and promote the construction of a closer China-ASEAN community of shared future. China and the Indochina Peninsula and Central Asian countries have achieved full coverage of jointly building a community of shared future at the bilateral and multilateral levels.

According to Ma Zhaoxu, China has signed a cooperation agreement on jointly building the "Belt and Road" with 25 neighboring countries, and is the largest trading partner of 18 countries. China and ASEAN have been each other's largest trading partners for five consecutive years. The negotiations on the 3.0 version of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone have been fully completed and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) is implemented with high quality. Economic cooperation industrial park, cross-border e-commerce hub, and smart agricultural network settled in the surrounding areas, creating a large number of jobs for the local area.

"China advocates an Asian security model of sharing safety, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and dialogue and consultation, and actively contributes China's wisdom and strength to promote the political resolution of hot issues in the Korean Peninsula, Afghanistan and other regions." Ma Zhaoxu said that China promotes the Asian values ​​of peace, cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, takes measures to facilitate personnel exchanges, and promotes the implementation of the "LanMekong Visa" and "ASEAN Visa" one after another, and mutual visa exemption with some Southeast Asian countries, and exchanges in areas such as culture, tourism, youth, localities, media, and think tanks continue to expand.

"China will actively practice the concept of good neighborhood, peace of neighborhood, wealth of neighborhood, friendship, sincerity, favor and inclusiveness, and sharing of shared destiny with neighboring countries, and work with neighboring countries to write a new chapter in building a community with a shared future in the surrounding areas." Ma Zhaoxu said.