Chinese and Southeast Asian officials and experts attended a seminar in Nanning on Thursday to discuss energy technology exchanges and cooperation in rural areas.

 

This is the first seminar of this kind since China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed a memorandum of understanding on agricultural cooperation in November 2002.

 

Chinese and ASEAN participants to the seminar exchanged experiences in developing energy technologies in rural areas.

 

More than 10 Chinese manufacturers attended the seminar and exhibited their technological products such as methane equipment.

 

Chinese and ASEAN leaders listed agriculture as one of the cooperation priorities at their fifth summit in November 2001. According to the memorandum of understanding signed a year later, energy technology exchanges in rural areas form a key part of the bilateral agricultural cooperation.

 

The seminar was held on the sidelines of the commemorative summit marking the 15th anniversary of the dialogue partnership between China and the ASEAN, which was held on Monday.

 

(Xinhua News Agency November 3, 2006)