VLADIVOSTOK - In his keynote speech at the APEC CEO Summit held in Vladivostok on 8 Sept 2012, Chinese president Hu Jintao placed emphasis on the need for the Asia-Pacific region to improve infrastruction construction and connectivity, and proposed to strengthen cooperation and exchanges with the Greater Mekong Subregion, the Greater Tumen Initiative, ASEAN, ASEAN+3, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and other mechanisms.

China's views on regional cooperation were fully demonstrated during the APEC meeting. The country intends to maintain its commitment to open regionalism, to respect the reality of the coexistence of multiple mechanisms in the Asia-Pacific region and to advocate for ensuring that the various mechanisms have the maximum amount of compatibility and collaboration. China has also emphasised the need to promote economic development and improve people's livelihoods, and put a priority on social construction projects that concern people's most direct and practical interests.

During the APEC meeting, talks between China and Russia have shown that the two countries want to have a conjunction point that will have complex and far-reaching effects on the future geopolitical and geo-economic situations of Northeast Asia and East Asia.