Content details China-ASEAN trade: 2025 China-ASEAN Week held, 5 years as each other's largest trading partners, 2024 trade $982.1B (16.9x 2002). 2025 first 10 months trade $862.7B (+8.2%). ASEAN became Zhejiang's largest market in 2025 first 10 months; Zhejiang's new energy vehicle exports to ASEAN up 1.9x. ASEAN is China's top agricultural/food partner for 8 years, with China-ASEAN FTA 3.0 advancing cooperation.

Li Qiang’s speech at the 24th SCO Heads of Government Meeting (Moscow, 2025) highlights SCO’s role in global governance, leveraging its advantages (Shanghai Spirit, practical experience, mechanisms), focusing on development, security, innovation, and supporting Kyrgyzstan for the 25th anniversary.

Leaders and representatives attended an SCO meeting presided by Russian PM Mishustin. The meeting discussed SCO's role in global governance, focused on development/security and innovation, approved the 2026-2035 development strategy. China proposed initiatives like SCO Development Bank, and parties signed joint communiqué and cooperation documents.

On Nov 17-18, 2025, the 24th SCO Prime Ministers' Meeting was held in Moscow. It praised China's 2024-2025 SCO chairmanship, supported Kyrgyzstan's 2025-2026 tenure, approved cooperation roadmaps, and promoted multi-field cooperation (economy, security, culture, etc.). The next meeting will be in Tajikistan in 2026.

On November 16, Yining Customs Technical Center successfully passed the "two in one" review of CNAS and CMA, covering two sites (Yining, Horgos), 73 categories (2209 parameters, 1147 expanded, +136%). Its self-inspection rates reach >96% for bulk/key commodities and 100% for some key items.

On November 18, the General Administration of Customs announced that all customs supervision preparations for the scheduled smooth closure of Hainan Free Trade Port are basically ready, with software and hardware conditions for customs clearance met.

The article covers how customs (Ningbo, Yangzhou, Shenyang, Shenzhen) use AI tools (Yongzhi AI agent, smart glasses, chatbot, multimodal AI) to boost smart supervision (recycled metals), passenger clearance efficiency, and departure tax rebate services, enhancing efficiency and risk control.

On November 19, foreign ministry spokesman Maoning stated at a regular press conference that China suspended Japanese aquatic products import as Japan failed to provide promised technical materials, and Japanese Prime Minister's wrong Taiwan-related remarks caused Chinese public indignation, making such products have no market in China.

According to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, this article presents bank foreign exchange settlement/sale (yuan and USD) and customer foreign-related income/payment (yuan and USD) data for October 2025 and January-October 2025.

The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) released Oct 2025 forex data; Li Bin answered questions on China's forex market which operated steadily with balanced supply-demand, stable cross-border capital flows, high goods trade fund inflow and narrowed service trade/investment income outflows.

Dai Shangxian (Swiss Center chairman) notes Swiss enterprises accelerate diversified market布局 amid global trade uncertainty, with China market more prominent. Swiss firms have strong China investment意愿, nearly half list China as top 3 investment markets. Sino-Swiss sustainable development/innovation cooperation has potential; Switzerland leads global innovation, China top 10 in 2025. 2025 marks 75th Sino-Swiss diplomatic anniversary. Swiss Center has helped 500+ Swiss firms enter China, participated in CIIE 8 consecutive years, this year's exhibition scale hits record. CIIE is key platform for Swiss firms to enter China market.

On November 17, the 4th China-Germany High-Level Financial Dialogue was co-chaired by Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and German Deputy Prime Minister & Finance Minister Klinbeir in Beijing. Both sides reached mutually beneficial consensus, agreeing to strengthen economic, trade and financial cooperation to promote bilateral relations and world economic stability. As the world's 2nd and 3rd largest economies, China and Germany aim to ease trade tensions. The dialogue is one of three high-level cooperation mechanisms between the two countries, held every two years alternately.