On 27 October 2020, an exchange event on ASEAN-China Vaccine Friend Cooperation was been held by ASEAN-China Centre (ACC). Officials from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China (MFA), Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Center of Disease Control and Prevention and representatives of Sinovac Biotech Ltd. attended the meeting. Mr. Raja Dato’ Nushirwan Zainal Abidin, Ambassador of Malaysia to China, and diplomats from ASEAN Member States (AMS) embassies joined the event. Ms. Wang Hongliu, Director of General Affairs and Coordination Division of ACC hosted the meeting and stated that ACC would continue to play its bridging role to push forward anti-epidemic cooperation between ASEAN and China for greater development of China-ASEAN relations that would benefit the people in the region. During the meeting, participants exchanged views on the issues of common concern among AMS such as anti-epidemic cooperation, vaccine research and development, production and procurement, etc. On behalf of AMS, Ambassador Nushirwan expressed appreciation to ACC for organizing this event. He stressed that in the face of COVID-19, vaccine cooperation is of utmost political importance for all AMS including Malaysia. ASEAN is looking forward to reinforcing collaboration with China on vaccines and other public health areas, creating more channels to obtain reliable, safe and effective vaccines and promoting exchanges and training for  healthcare institutes, enterprises, and medical staff, so as to bring the epidemic under control and recover the economy at an early date.