China Economic Net, Beijing, August 29 (Reporter Ma Changyan) Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu said at the second press conference of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War today that China has always placed its surrounding areas in the top position in the overall diplomacy and has always been committed to promoting regional peace, stability, development and prosperity. Cooperation with China is both respected and affordable, and has become a consensus among neighboring countries.

On August 29, Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu introduced the relevant situation of upholding peaceful development and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind at the second press conference of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, and answered reporters' questions. Photo by Ma Changyan, reporter of China Economic Network

"President Xi Jinping has visited nearly all neighboring countries. His first visits after the 18th, 19th and 20th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China all chose neighboring countries, leading our relations with neighboring countries into the best period in modern times," said Ma Zhaoxu.

At present, the construction of a surrounding community with a shared future is constantly making new progress and reaching a new level. 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.

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" has been 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 political resolution of hot issues in the Korean Peninsula, Afghanistan and other regions.

China promotes the Asian values ​​of peace, cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, takes measures to facilitate personnel exchanges, promotes the implementation of the "LanMekong Visa" and "ASEAN Visa" one after another, and exempts visas from some Southeast Asian countries, and exchanges in areas such as culture, tourism, youth, localities, media, and think tanks continue to expand.

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.

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