On the evening of 19 October 2024, the ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) invited the diplomats from ASEAN Member States (AMS) Embassies in China for a tour of 2024 Beijing “Jingcai” Lantern Show at the Beijing Garden Expo Park. Secretary General Shi Zhongjun of the ACC led the group of around 180 people including Ambassador Pehin Dato Rahmani Dato Basir of Brunei and his spouse, DCM Parulian George Andreas Silalahi of the Embassy of Indonesia and his spouse, and diplomats from other AMS Embassies in Beijing on this joyful tour.
 
     The Beijing Garden Expo Park was brightly lit and decorated with various lanterns. The AMS diplomats strolled among the fantastic arrays of lanterns, which were arranged under nine themes, with great interest and bursting joy. All the invited participants had great fun together with the Chinese visitors at the Park, appreciating the beauty of traditional Chinese culture, thus contributing to deepening ASEAN-China mutual understanding and friendship, and enriching ASEAN-China Year of People-to-people Exchanges.