ASEAN-CHINA Dialogue Relations
Introduction
1. ASEAN-China Dialogue Relations commenced when H.E. QianQichen, the then Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China, attended the opening session of the 24th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in July 1991 in Kuala Lumpur as a guest of the Malaysian Government in which he expressed China’s keen interest to cooperate with ASEAN for mutual benefit. Subsequently, China was accorded full Dialogue Partner status at the 29th AMM in July 1996 in Jakarta.
2. The relationship between ASEAN and China was elevated to a higher plane with the signing of the Joint Declaration of the Heads of State/Government on Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity at the 7th ASEAN-China Summit in October 2003 in Bali, Indonesia and the adoption of the ASEAN-ROK Plan of Action (POA) 2005-2010 to implement the Joint Declaration at the 8th ASEAN-China Summit in November 2004 in Vientiane. In order to continue to deepen the ASEAN-China Strateg