On 12 August 2022, the Symposium on ASEAN-China Cooperation on Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, jointly hosted by the ASEAN-China Centre, the China Foreign Affairs University and the Institute of Disaster Prevention of China, was successfully held in Beijing. The symposium was strongly supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and the China Earthquake Administration. More than 100 participants in total attended the event online and offline, including diplomatic envoys of AMS in China, as well as representatives from ASEAN and Chinese governments in charge of disaster management, academia, enterprises and media.