KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 (NNN-BERNAMA) – The closing ceremony of the ASEAN-China Year of People-to-People Exchanges 2024-2025, co-hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and the Malaysia-China Friendship Association, was held in Malacca, Malaysia, from Tuesday to Wednesday (yesterday).
Malaysian Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, sent a congratulatory letter to the event. Yang Wanming, president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, led the Chinese delegation and delivered remarks.
About 300 participants from the Chinese Embassy in Malaysia, Chinese ministries, 11 Chinese provincial-level regions, as well as, the ASEAN-China Centre, ASEAN Secretariat and some friendship organisations in ASEAN countries attended the event.
The event kicked off along Jonker Street in Malacca, with drum performances and lion dances, as guests toured the historic quarter to revisit the long-standing friendship between Malaysia and China before jointly planting a China-ASEAN Friendship Tree.
During the closing ceremony, awards were presented to the top ten projects and best-organised programmes for the year. A China-ASEAN people-to-people exchange round-table was also held.
Over the past two years, China and ASEAN jointly staged nearly 200 high-level, high-impact and widely welcomed people-to-people exchange activities.– NNN-BERNAMA