Xu Ningning, executive director of the China-ASEAN Business Committee and executive director of the China-ASEAN Business Council, said that China and ASEAN will take the 15th anniversary as a turning point to establish the working relations in various areas, entering a new stage of cooperation and development.

By establishing and strengthening cooperation on science and technology industry and business, the two sides will further stimulate the vitality of economic development, making that development more sustainable, official said.

It is also an important measure in line with the Belt and Road Initiative, Xu said.

The China-ASEAN Business Committee CABC recommended that Wang Jiwu, chairman of Tus-Holdings, be chairman of the China-ASEAN Science and technology Industry Cooperation Committee.

Xu said they believed that Tus-Holdings would play a positive role in the cooperation.