Xi's Southeast Asia tour boosts ties
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E-mail Xinhua, October 9, 2013
Both Indonesia and Malaysia agreed with China to upgrade bilateral relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership and maintain frequent exchange of high-level visits.
As important achievements of Xi's visits, China signed a five-year program for economic and trade cooperation with the two countries respectively, and proposed to increase bilateral trade with Indonesia to 80 billion U.S. dollars by 2015 and to 160 billion dollars with Malaysia by 2017.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of a strategic partnership between China and ASEAN. Wang said China regards it as a priority to develop friendly cooperation with ASEAN nations in its diplomacy with neighboring countries.
The Chinese president also stressed that China will continue pursuing a foreign policy of building good relations with neighboring countries and win-win cooperation, Wang said.
Xi also called for the building of a more closely-knit China-ASEAN community of common destiny, and suggested China and ASEAN nations, as good neighbors, friends and partners, should stand together and assist each other, share together danger and safety, and carry forward the spirit of sailing in the same boat.
Wang said China will further open up to ASEAN, upgrade the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, and strive to expand bilateral trade volume to 1 trillion dollars by 2020.
During Xi's visit, the Chinese president also proposed to establish an Asia infrastructure investment bank to promote inter-connectivity in the region.
Meanwhile, China stands ready to strengthen maritime cooperation with ASEAN nations and jointly build a new maritime silk road, Wang said.
Xi's visits showed that China is willing to share weal and woe and work together with ASEAN countries, Wang said, adding that the visits inject fresh impetus into China-ASEAN cooperation.
