The 9th JEB Meeting Held at ACC Secretariat

On 5 November 2018, the 9th Meeting of the Joint Executive Board (JEB) was held at the Secretariat of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) in Beijing. The Meeting was co-chaired by Mme. Tracy Chan, Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister-Counsellor of the Embassy of Singapore in China, and Mme. Cao Jing, Counsellor of the Asian Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. Attendants included Charge d’ Affairs of Embassy of Brunei to China, representatives from embassies of Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam, members of JEB from the Chinese side, and officials of the ACC Secretariat.

The JEB members highly commended ACC’s great efforts and achievements in promoting friendly exchanges and cooperation in trade, investment, education, culture, tourism, and information and media in the context of the 15th anniversary of ASEAN-China strategic partnership and ASEAN-China Year of Innovation.  The upcoming 21st ASEAN-China Summit in Singapore will issue “China-ASEAN Strategic Partnership Vision 2030” and related documents, which will chart the course for the development of future ASEAN-China relations. All members expected that ACC would continuously make full use of its strength, follow the guide of “Vision 2030”, focus on the theme of ASEAN-China Year of Media Exchange in 2019 and priority areas of ASEAN-China cooperation to plan and carry out next year’s activities, so as to make greater contributions to the in-depth and all-around development of ASEAN-China relations.

Secretary-General Chen Dehai expressed appreciation to the JEB members for their long-standing support and valuable suggestions to the work of the Secretariat. He said that ACC would continue to actively implement the important consensus reached by leaders of ASEAN member states and China, and solidly push forward friendly exchanges and practical cooperation in various areas. By maintaining close contacts with the JEB members, heeding and adopting relevant opinions and suggestions, the Secretariat would press ahead to play a even bigger role in deepening ASEAN-China strategic partnership. 

The JEB members listened to the work report of ACC since the 8th JEB Meeting, and deliberated on the ACC Draft Annual Report of 2018, ACC Draft Annual Plan of Operation and Work Programme of 2019 and the Draft Proposed Budget of Operational Expenditure of 2019 and other related matters. The above-mentioned documents will be submitted to the 8th Joint Council Meeting of ACC for further consideration.