Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN Hou Yanqi is about to resign

Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN, Hou Yanqi, is about to leave and bid farewell to ASEAN Secretary General Gao Jinhong.

According to the Chinese Embassy in ASEAN, on November 12, 2025, Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN, Hou Yanqi, resigned and paid a visit to ASEAN Secretary General Gao Jinhong.

Hou Yanqi reviewed the positive progress made in China ASEAN relations over the past three years and stated that under the strategic guidance and personal promotion of the leaders of both sides, China ASEAN relations are the most comprehensive, substantial, and leading among ASEAN and its partners. The period of the 15th Five Year Plan is a crucial period for China to basically achieve socialist modernization. China will firmly promote high-quality development, expand high-level opening up, and is willing to strengthen the docking of development strategies with ASEAN, so as to provide new opportunities for common prosperity of countries in the region with new achievements of Chinese path to modernization.

Gao Jinhong appreciated Ambassador Hou Yanqi's contributions to promoting ASEAN China relations, highly praised the four major global initiatives, and expressed the hope that China will achieve greater development achievements under the guidance of the 15th Five Year Plan. ASEAN is willing to further deepen its comprehensive strategic partnership with China, achieve more fruitful results, and better benefit the people of both sides.

That evening, Gao Jinhong hosted a farewell banquet for Hou Yanqi.