Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (5th L) and leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries pose for group photos before the 20th China-ASEAN (10+1) leaders' meeting in Manila cheap asics gel lyte iii mens , the Philippines, Nov. 13, 2017. (XinhuaLiu Weibing) MANILA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- China proposes the formulation of a vision for strategic partnership between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) toward the year 2030 to upgrade cooperation, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Monday.
Chairing the 20th China-ASEAN (10+1) leaders' meeting in Manila with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Li said the vision will upgrade the China-ASEAN cooperation framework from 2+7 to 3+X.
The 3+X cheap asics gel lyte iii , using the letter X in math to represent the unknown, means China-ASEAN will touch many fields while focusing on three pillars -- political security, economy and trade, and people-to-people exchange.
The current 2+7 framework emphasizes a two-point political consensus of enhancing strategic trust and promoting economic cooperation and seven cooperation fields including trade facilitation, interconnectivity, security exchanges cheap asics gel lyte evo nt , among others.
Li said China-ASEAN cooperation will have more global substance and build a new exemplar for South-South cooperation.
The Chinese premier said it is a consensus of the ASEAN nations that China-ASEAN relationship is the most vibrant and has the richest contents among the relationships ASEAN has with its partners. China was the first major country outside the bloc to endorse the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, to form a strategic partnership with ASEAN, and to start free trade area talks with it.
Li said China has, as always, given priority to its relations with ASEAN in neighborhood diplomacy and is committed to being ASEAN's good friend and good neighbor who can work together to tide over difficult times and strive for a community of shared future with common ideals, prosperity and responsibility.
On Monday cheap asics gel kinsei 6 , he proposed the alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative with the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025 to deepen China-ASEAN cooperation in such areas as trade, finance, infrastructure, rules and regulations, and personnel.
Li said China and ASEAN should conduct closer high-level exchanges, strengthen policy dialogue cheap asics gel kayano 21 , deepen political security cooperation to advance mutual understanding and trust.
He urged all ASEAN nations to ratify the upgraded China-ASEAN free trade area (FTA) agreement as soon as possible so as to bring benefits to both sides at an early date.
Advances should be made in Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations, implementation of key international industrial capacity cooperation projects, financial cooperation between China and ASEAN, he added.
On people-to-people exchanges, Li said China will provide government scholarships to more than 20,000 ASEAN students in the next three years. China will offer training courses to 3 cheap asics gel hyper 33 ,000 candidates from ASEAN in 2018 and boost cooperation in capacity building in such areas as finance, agriculture, science and technology, culture, public administration and transportation.
Li said China agrees to designate the year of 2018 as the China-ASEAN Year of Innovation and will, in the coming five years cheap asics gel kayano 20 , invite 500 young ASEAN scientists to China for short-term scientific research projects, train 1,200 ASEAN scientific research and management personnel and launch 10 joint research labs.
Li also said China has also proposed the leaders' meeting to announce the start of consultations on the text of the Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea.
Citing government sources, Philippine local television network ABS-CBN reported late Monday that ASEAN leaders have also agreed to begin negotiating the text.
ASEAN leaders said the positive response shows that the South China Sea situation is stabilizing and there is a consensus between China and ASEAN to safeguard regional peace and stability.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- China remained the overseas country with most students in U.S. universities in 2016-2017 academic year, according to the U.S. Consulate General Shanghai.
A total of 350 cheap asics aaron low ,755 Chinese students were enrolled at U.S. institutions of higher education in the academic year, up 6.8 percent, retaining China's top slot for eight years in a row, it said during a press conference Tuesday.
The report was published by the Institute of International Education, an independent American nonprofit organization in partnership with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Chinese students made up 32.5 percent of all international students in the United States. Of them, 142 www.patrr.com ,851 were undergraduates, a 5.3 percent increase. The number of Chinese graduate students increased by 4.1 percent.
China is the sixth most popular destination for U.S. students studying abroad, with close to 12,000 in China during 2015-2016.
The institute also found 55.5 percent of Chinese students chose engineering, business and management, mathematics or computer science. Those who chose social sciences or humanities accounted for only 9.3 percent. In contrast cheap onitsuka tiger usa , 17.1 percent of American students studying abroad chose social sciences as their field of study.
SANAA, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's new government sworn in Sunday with the prime minister vowing to restoring security and putting economy back on track, despite rejection from the ruling General People's Congress party and Shiite Houthi group that controls the capital Sanaa.
The cabinet members led by Prime Minister Khaled Bahah were sworn in in front of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in the presidential palace. Bahah listed poverty and security challenges as key priorities to his administration.