On March 23, 2026, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended a reception in Beijing marking the 10th anniversary of the first Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Leaders’ Meeting and delivered a speech. Diplomatic envoys from the five Mekong countries to China, diplomatic officials from ASEAN countries and relevant international organizations in China, as well as leading officials from relevant Chinese ministries, local governments and think tanks attended the reception.
At the reception, the Global Center for Mekong Studies (China Center) released the report Building a Community with a Shared Future among Lancang-Mekong Countries: A Common Vision and Practical Pathways. Chen Bo, the President of the China Institute of International Studies, introduced the core contents of the report.
The report holds that over the past decade, the six Lancang-Mekong countries have upheld the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, transforming the vision of building a Community with a Shared Future among Lancang-Mekong countries from a common aspiration into an inevitable choice and vivid practice for safeguarding regional peace and promoting modernization, achieving fruitful results. The unique LMC cooperation model has advanced in an orderly manner, the Lancang-Mekong culture has been continuously cultivated and promoted, and the path to win-win cooperation has become increasingly clear.
The report recommends that as the world enters a new period of turbulence and transformation, the six Lancang-Mekong countries need to build sustained consensus on cooperation and work together to create an “LMC 2.0” characterized by unity and cooperation, openness and win-win outcomes, green innovation, and peace and tranquility. They should deepen the building of a Community with a Shared Future among Lancang-Mekong countries and independently explore a cooperation path suited to subregional realities. All countries should strengthen strategic consultation, deepen integrated development, adhere to low-carbon-led practices, guard the common home, prioritize people’s wellbeing, improve the supporting system, and highlight collaborative synergy—ensuring that the fruits of cooperation benefit the peoples of the six countries more widely.
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On September 28, 2017, to implement the spirit of the Sanya Declaration adopted at the first LMC Leaders’ Meeting, the six Lancang-Mekong countries jointly established the Global Center for Mekong Studies in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as an important transnational think tank collaboration platform under the LMC framework, with national centers in all six countries. The China Center is based at the China Institute of International Studies.
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