From June 8 to 9, 2022, the ASEAN, China, Japan and the ROK Senior Officials Meeting, the East Asia Summit Senior Officials Meeting, and the ASEAN Regional Forum Senior Officials Meeting will be held via video respectively. Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Jianghao attended. Participants exchanged views on the development of various mechanisms, post-pandemic recovery, and international and regional issues of common concern. Wu Jianghao said that since last year, East Asian countries have worked hard to overcome difficulties, promote post-pandemic recovery, and inject more stability and positive energy into the international and regional situation. In 2021, the regional economic growth will be close to 6%, and the overall recovery momentum will be maintained. President Xi Jinping has successively proposed global development initiatives and global security initiatives, which have injected important impetus into the sustainable growth of the world economy, and also pointed out a new path for common security, which has received positive responses from the international community. China is willing to work with all parties to strengthen policy communication, deepen practical cooperation, and make unremitting efforts to achieve regional peace, stability and development.

Wu said that this year marks the 25th anniversary of the cooperation between ASEAN and China, Japan and the ROK. All parties should consolidate the mechanism's role as the main channel in East Asian cooperation, improve the level of public health governance in East Asia, promote regional economic integration, expand digital economy, green development, Industrial chain and supply chain cooperation to maintain a good development environment. The East Asia Summit should comply with the wishes of countries in the region, promote political security and economic and social development in a balanced manner, bring together the joint forces of anti-epidemic and recovery, calibrate the direction of development, and maintain an ASEAN-centered, open and inclusive regional cooperation structure. All member states of the ASEAN Regional Forum should establish a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept, respect the social system and development path independently chosen by each country, adhere to genuine multilateralism, and maintain the international system with the United Nations as the core and international law as the foundation. the international order. We should bridge differences through dialogue and consultation, and accommodate each other's legitimate security concerns. It is necessary to coordinate the response to food and energy security and combat all forms of terrorism and extremist forces. Wu Yanzheng refuted the attacks and accusations made by the United States and other individual participants on the South China Sea, Hong Kong-related, Xinjiang-related, and Taiwan-related issues. Double standard. Participants supported ASEAN's centrality in regional cooperation, affirmed the role of various mechanisms in promoting post-pandemic recovery and promoting pragmatic cooperation, and called for deepening strategic communication, strengthening mechanism building, expanding pragmatic cooperation, and helping the region achieve sustainable recovery . ASEAN, China, Japan and South Korea expressed the need to fully and effectively implement the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, narrow the digital divide, maintain regional financial, food and energy security, and build a more resilient and sustainable East Asia. The East Asia Summit countries pointed out that they should actively respond to regional challenges, plan the future development direction of the summit, and jointly promote regional peace, stability, development and prosperity. The member states of the ASEAN Regional Forum emphasized that they should continue to promote confidence-building measures, steadily carry out preventive diplomacy, and make positive contributions to lasting peace and sustainable development in the region.