East Asia cooperation

Premier Wen Jiabao's attendance at a series of leaders' meetings in Hanoi, Vietnam, which begins on Thursday, will further consolidate China's good-neighbor relations and expand reciprocal and pragmatic cooperation in East Asia.

Wen is scheduled to attend the 13th summit between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (10+1); the 13th summit between ASEAN, China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) (10+3); and the fifth East Asia Summit (EAS).

China highly values the important role these mechanisms have played in promoting regional cooperation and integration. As economies in Asia continue to perform well against the backdrop of the slow global economic recovery, closer and pragmatic cooperation in this region will be a blessing to the economic development of the region and the rest of the world.