2023 is the 10 anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative and the destiny of building a closer China-ASEAN. China regards ASEAN as the priority direction of neighboring diplomacy and a key area for the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Silk Road spirit is an important source of cooperation.

The ancient Maritime Silk Road promoted ASEAN countries to become the meeting point of ancient maritime trade between East and West. Porcelain, tea, spices and silk have become the main commodities in China's trade with ASEAN countries, and "Zheng He's voyage to the West" and "galleon trade" have strengthened the exchanges between China and ASEAN countries. Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Dagang and Malacca became the prosperous metropolises of the ancient Maritime Silk Road, and businessmen from various countries gathered, leaving many folk stories.

In the long history, the ancient Silk Road has brought peace, cooperation, tolerance and mutual benefit to ASEAN countries. The road of peace, cooperation, openness, mutual learning and win-win has become the knowledge base of China and ASEAN countries.

The Silk Road spirit of "peaceful cooperation, openness, tolerance, mutual learning and mutual benefit" gradually formed at the intersection of history and reality has always run through the friendly exchanges between China and ASEAN countries, and has become an important source for the "Belt and Road" to take root in ASEAN.

Achieving development is the greatest common denominator of cooperation.

Development is the greatest common denominator of cooperation between China and ASEAN countries. In the past ten years, with the Belt and Road Initiative as an important platform, China and ASEAN * * have enjoyed more and more development dividends through multi-dimensional development cooperation such as open development, China Unicom development and healthy development, laying a solid foundation for development and benefiting people's livelihood in a wider range.

Industrialization and capacity cooperation are the new directions of cooperation.

Industrialization and capacity cooperation are the new directions for * * * to build the "Belt and Road" cooperation. Industrialization is the core of modernization. Only when industrialization reaches a certain stage can modernization be fully realized. With the gradual completion of traditional infrastructure construction, industrialization and capacity cooperation will become the key directions for China and ASEAN to build the Belt and Road Initiative and promote their respective development.