China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have established a comprehensive strategic partnership, President Xi Jinping declared on November 22 while chairing the ASEAN-China Special Summit to Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of ASEAN-China Dialogue Relations via video link. Xi said the valuable experience of China-ASEAN cooperation over the past 30 years should be cherished and upheld over the long term.

　　Over the past three decades, China and ASEAN have remained committed to amity and good faith, mutual benefit and win-win results.

　　Since the outbreak of the pandemic, China and ASEAN members have fostered cooperation on curbing the spread of COVID-19. To date, China has provided ASEAN member states, including Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, with more than 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines and a great number of emergency medical supplies, and has also sent medical expert teams to help build virus -testing labs and work on vaccine trials with several ASEAN countries.

　　Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that China will continue to provide vaccine support to ASEAN countries until the pandemic is completely defeated.

　　Bilateral trade between China and ASEAN, its largest trading partner, reached 2.66 trillion RMB (about 412 billion USD) in the first half of 2021, up 27.8 percent year on year, according to data from China Customs.

　　At the forefront of China's opening-up to ASEAN, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which borders Vietnam, has seen its trade boom with imports and exports in cross-border e-commerce surging 446.3 percent year on year from January to July this year.

　　In addition, under the guidance of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Guangxi has pioneered a new mode of technology transfer, establishing a China-ASEAN technology transfer cooperation network covering 10 ASEAN countries, giving a strong boost to the cooperation between China and ASEAN countries in scientific and technological innovation.

　　Green development has become the consensus of China and ASEAN since the official inauguration of the China-ASEAN Environmental Cooperation Centre this year.

　　The Year of Sustainable Development Cooperation between two sides was initiated in May 2021, noting collaboration on biodiversity, climate change and protection of marine environments. The two sides agreed to implement the Framework of China-ASEAN Environmental Cooperation Strategy and Action Plan (2021-2025), to promote cooperation in priority areas such as environmental policy dialogue, climate change and air quality improvement, sustainable cities and marine plastic reduction, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management.

　　To scale up new energy investment, China's relevant departments join hands with the ASEAN Centre for Energy to implement the ASEAN-China Clean Energy Capacity Building Programme, jointly build platforms for clean energy technological cooperation and facilitate technology transference in new energy.