On November 3, 2023, the 10th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Senior Officials' Meeting was held in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. The meeting was co-chaired by Chinese Senior Official for LMC and Assistant Foreign Minister Nong Rong and the senior official of the co-chair country Myanmar and attended by senior officials from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. The six sides reviewed the progress of LMC over the past year, summarized cooperation experience, and had an in-depth exchange of views on the following cooperation.

Nong Rong said that over the past year or so, the six LMC countries have conscientiously implemented the common understandings reached at the 3rd LMC Leaders' Meeting and the 7th LMC Foreign Ministers' Meeting, and highlights of pragmatic cooperation in various fields have frequently emerged, bringing practical benefits to the people in the sub-region and vividly interpreting LMC's feature of a pragmatic, efficient and project-oriented model that prioritizes development.

Nong Rong stressed that China is advancing Chinese modernization with high-quality development, and will continue to practice the principle of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness in its neighborhood diplomacy, plan future cooperation and jointly promote economic recovery and innovative development with Mekong countries, and coordinate sub-regional development and security, so as to inject stronger impetus into building the Lancang-Mekong Economic Development Belt and building a community with a shared future for Lancang-Mekong countries.

Participants at the meeting highly praised the fruitful outcomes achieved over the past seven years since the launch of LMC, thanked China for its support for the post-pandemic recovery and sustainable development of Mekong countries, and unanimously stated that they will further close cooperation, deepen good-neighborliness, friendship, solidarity and mutual trust, work together to resist risks and challenges, jointly promote post-pandemic recovery, and take LMC to a new level for the benefit of people in all countries in the basin.

During his stay in Naypyidaw, Nong Rong also visited and inspected cooperation projects supported by the LMC Special Fund. Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Chen Hai attended relevant activities.