On August 12, 2024, the opening ceremony of the ASEAN-China Week 2024 was held in Changzhi City, Shanxi Province. Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi sent a congratulatory letter to the event.

Wang Yi said that since President Xi Jinping and the leaders of ASEAN member states announced the establishment of the China-ASEAN comprehensive strategic partnership in 2021, significant progress has been achieved in advancing the China-ASEAN community with a shared future. The building of a peaceful, safe and secure, prosperous, beautiful, and amicable homeland has yielded rich fruits, bringing more than 2 billion people on both sides closer through fostering mutual respect, mutual understanding, amity and solidarity.

Wang Yi emphasized that ASEAN and China, as friendly neighbors and two large thriving markets, boast enormous potential in the growth of bilateral relations. Noting that the theme of this event is "Achieving Prosperity through Innovation", Wang Yi expressed his hope that the two sides will make good use of this event as a platform to further explore new areas of China-ASEAN cooperation. In particular, the two sides must seize the opportunities in a new era defined by sci-tech revolution and industrial transformation, leverage their complementary advantages, accelerate coordinated development, and jointly foster new quality productive forces in the region, so as to add new strength to the momentum of development and rejuvenation for individual countries in the region, bring forth fresh impetus to regional stability and prosperity, and make new contributions to building an even closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future.