On September 15, 2011, Assistant Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping had a collective meeting with Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the national coordinators of the SCO member states coming to attend the meeting of SCO national coordinators in Beijing. The two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on the implementation of the consensus reached at the SCO Astana Summit, the preparations for the Prime Ministers' Meeting this year, holding the "Year of Good-Neighborliness and Friendship" of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and other topics.