Selasa, 26 Juni 2012

20th Anniversary ASEAN and China

Programme Information

ASEAN – China Youth Caring and Sharing Programme
Theme – Youth: the Future for ASEAN-China Relations

Background:
To mark the 20th anniversary of Dialogue Relation between ASEAN and China, and to celebrate the ASEAN – China Friendship Year (2011), declared by Premier Wen Jiabao’s at the 13th China ASEAN summit in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2010, the ministry of education, Thailand, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand, and the AUN Secretariat is organizing the ASEAN-China Youth Sharing and Programme from the 25th to the 31st of March, 2012.


The programme, which is divided between Thailand’s capital city, Bangkok, and Kunming in Yunnan province, PR. China, brings together 45 delegates (high school students and lecturers) to participate in both academic and non-academic activities. These activities will helpto develop an appreciation of the enormous cultural diversity of the region, promote friendship among participants, enhance understanding of ASEAN-China relations, and identify opportunities to develop stronger connections between people, led by recommendations of the to develop an appreciation of the enormous cultural diversity of the region, promote friendship among participants, enhance understanding of ASEAN-China relations, and identify opportunities to develop stronger connections between people, led by recommendations of the youth of ASEAN and China.
A highlight of programme is the special workshop session, designed to bring out the ideas and relations of the younger generations on how they could contribute to the enrichmentof ASEAN-China relations. The ASEAN –China Youth Recommendations will be presented to representative from the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and also representative fro  the Thai Ministry of Education and foreign Affairs. The Recommendation will later be submitted to the relevant ASEAN-China forums through the ministry of foreign affairs to Thailand.

Participant: 45 persons
·        3 representative from each ASEAN member country comprising 2 senior high school students aged 16-18 years and 1 lecturer/official
·        9 chinese students and 1 lecturer
·        AUN executive Director and 2 AUN staff
·        1 representative from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand
·        1 Representative from the Ministry of Education, Thailand

Dates: 25th – 31st March 2012, Bangkok (Thailand) and Junming (PR. China)



ASEAN – China Relations

            The ASEAN – China Free Trade Agreement has drawn much international attention as it is one of the lowest international trade tariff areas I the world and the largest FTA in population size, including 1,9 billion people in total. In terms of economic size, it is the third largest FTA and accounts for 13% of global trade (2008).

            Other collaboration between ASEAN and China includes the Maritime Transport Agreement, Aviation Cooperation Framework, and the Regional Air Services Agreement. All of the these will help to facultate the movement of goods and passengers to boost trade and economy. Additionally, China has launched a $10 billion investment to improve infrastructure and telecommunication links between ASEAN and China, as well as $15 billion towars the integration of the two economies. This partnership is garnering attention globally as a platform for economic growth.
General Information about the Site Visits in Thailand


About Chulalongkorn University (CU)

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand’s first institution of higher learning was officially founded in March, 1917. The groundwork and preparation for it in terms of planning and development, however, took place more than a century ago. The worldwide economic, social and political changes in the late nineteenth century contributed to Siam’s decision to adapt herself in order to avoid being colonized by the Western power (“Siam” became Thailand in the year 1939). Thus King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) has royal policy to strengthen and improve government so that the century could successfully resist the tide of colonialism. One of the majot parts of the policy, which would later prove to be deep-rooted and highly effective, was to improve the Siamese educational system so as to produce capable personnel to work in both the public and private sectors.

            When it was first founded, the university had 380 students taking classes in four faculties which were located in 2 campuse. The Faculty of Medicine was located at Siriraj Hospital, while the Faculties of public Administration and of Engineering were at the Administration Building and the Faculty of Arts and science was located at Prince Vajirunhi’s palace. The latter three faculties  were in Patumwan district. The ministry of justice was responsible for the law school until the university was ready to take over, and the Teacher’s Training School was handed over to the Ministry of Education.

The development of Chulalongkorn University continued. From 1934 to 1958, the university emphasized improvement of undergraduate education; thus more faculties were established. In 1962 on, the university started to focus on graduate education and began to set up research centers and institutes. The Grand Palace is a complex of buildings in Bangkok, Thailand. It served as the official residence of the king of Thailand from the 18th century onward. Construction of the Palace began in 1782, during the reign of King Rama I, when he moved the capital across the river from Thonburi to Bangkok. The palace has been constantly expanded and many additional structures were added over time. The present King of Thailand, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, however, resides at the Chitralada Palace.

When King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) decided to move the capital of Siam from Thonburi on the west to Bangkok on the east of the Chao praya river he decided to build a magnificent new palace as a place of residence as well as a centure of government. The area chosen was however occupied by Chinese merchants, whom he promptly asked to relocate (to the present day Yaowarat area).

The towerof gold began construction on 6 May 1782. At first the palace consisted of several wooden buildings surrounded on four sides with a high defensive wall of 1.900 metres in length, which encloses an area of 218.400 square metres. Soon the king ordered the building of the Monarch’s personal place of worship and royal temple. Once the palace was complete the king decided to undergo a coronation ceremony to celebrate in 1785.

The plan of the Grand Palace followed closely that of the old palace in Ayutthaya. The Palace is rectangular shaped, with the western side next to a river and the royal temple situated to the east side, with all structures facing north. The palace itself is divided into three quarters: the other quarters, the middle quarters and the inner quarters.

The palace became the centre of the Rattanakoksin government and royal court for most of the early Chakri Dynasty until the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) who preferred to stay at the dusit Palace, but still used the Grand Palace as an office and primary place of residence. This practice was followed by his sons (Rama VI and Rama VII) who preferred their own palaces. King ananda ahidol (Rama VIII) moved into the palace full time after his return from abroad in 1945. However after his mysterious death a year later in one of the palaces inside the complex, his brother King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) who succeeded him decided to move permanently to the Chitralada Palace.

The Palace is however still very much in use; as many royal rituals are performed here by the King every year. Other royal ceremonies celebrated here are coronations; royal funerals, marriages and stat banguets. The Palace grounds also contain the offices and building of the Bureau of the Royal Household, the Office of the Private Secretary to the King and Royal Institute of Thailand.
General Information about the site visits in China

One of the four oldest civilizations in the world, china has a history of 4.000 years and is known for its rich cultural relics and historical sites. It is the country credited with many significant contributions to the world such as the invention of the compass, paper-making, gunpowder and printing.

The Great Wall, Grand Canal and Karez irrigation system are three great ancident engineering projects built 2.000 years old. Today, they are symbols of the rich culture of the Chinese nation. China evolved through a long history of primitive society, slavery society, feudal society, semi –feudal, semi-colonial society and the present socialist society called The People’s Republic of China which was founded on October 1, 1949. The country now convers a total land area of 9.6 million square kilometers, cross four time zone s. Beijing, the capital of China, is located in the Eastern 8th Zona which serves as the standard time for the whole country.


ASEAN

What is ASEAN? – The Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) is an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in Southeast Asia countries.

            Background – ASEAN was established on 8th August 1667 in Bangkok, Thailand with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Members of ASEAN, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam then joined on 7 January 1984, |Vietnam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997 and Cambodia on 30 April 1999 making up what is today the ten Member States of ASEAN.

The ASEAN region has a population of about 500 million, a total area of 4,55 million square kilometers, a combined gross domestic product of almost US$700 billion and total trade of about US$850 million.


Goals of ASEAN

Ø To accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region through join endeavors
Ø To promote regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law
Ø To encourage active collaboration and mutual assistance on matters of common interest in Economic, Social, Cultural, Technical, Scientific and Administrative fields.
Ø To provide assistance to each other in terms of training and research facilities in the educational, professional, technical and administrative areas
Ø To work together for a greater utilization of agriculture and industries in order to expand the trade both locally and internationally
Ø To study the problems of international community trade, the improvement of their transportation and communications facilities and the raising of the living standards of the nations
Ø To promote Southeast Asian studies
Ø To maintain close and positive cooperation with existing internation and regional organizations with similar aims and purposes




General Information about the Site Visits in Kunming

About Yunnan University

Situated in the beautiful “Spring City” of Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province, Yunnan University was founded in 1922 and is one of the oldest comprehensive universities in Southwest China. The university began its enrolment in April 1923. In 1946, Yunnan University was listed among 15 Chinese universities of world renown in Concise Encyclopedia Britannica. It is the only academic establishment in Yunnan Province that has won the membership of “211 Project” initiated by the national government.

The university now has 14 schools, seven research institutes, three public teaching departments, one graduate, one college for vocational and continuing education and one college for international students, offering courses for 4 postdoctoral programs, 53 doctoral programs, 155 master programs and 65 undergraduate programs, covering the nine major disclipines ofliterature, history, philosophy, economics, law, science, engineering, management and education. The university has 2.746 faculty and staff members including 1.475 teachers and researchers. As of now, postgraduates, 19.607 continuing education students and students in other programs.

            The university boast four national training bases for basic science research and teaching personnel, two key disclipines at the national level, and one national key laboratory. Research has benn successfully conducted in the fields of ethology, history, ecology, international relations, tourism management, organic chemistry, meteorology and astrophisycs, and research finding of microbiological fermentation engineering, natural medicine study, superfine functional materials, monoclonal antibody and rapid test stripts have become industrialized.

            YU is a key public university under the supervision of Ministry of Education of P.R.C and Yunnan Provincial government. It’s entitled to grant bachelor’s degrees (4 years), master’s degrees (2-3 years) and Ph.D. degrees (3-5 years) degrees. Students who have satisfied the academic requirements (credit System) will be granted relevant degrees. The academic calendar is based on a bi-semester system. The spring semester starts in late February and ends in middle July, autumn semester from early September to next January. Each semester consist of 18 instruction weeks and exams weeks.

            Yunnan University attaches great importance to international exchange and cooperation. The university has established exchange with more than 90 unversities in 22 countries and region, and every year it engages over 50 long-term or short-term foreign teachers and experts. Until now the university has enrolled 15.000 international students from more than 20 countries and regions.





Past Achievements

ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)
            Economically the main achievement of ASEAN has been the maintenance of an uninterrupted period of peace and stability during which the individual Member Countries has been able to concentrate on promoting rapid and sustained economic growth and modernization. Over the years, ASEAN’s overall trade grew form US$10 billion in 1967 to US$650 billion in 1995. With its combined trade value, ASEAN is the fourth largest trading entity in the world after the European Union, the United States and Japan.

ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC)
            The established os ASEAN University Network (AUN) was initiated to serve as an ASEAN mechanism that has the ability to promote cooperatin among ASEAN scholar, academicians and scientist in the region. One of its successful programs is the student exchanges program among its member countries that enhances a great mobility of students outside the border, the program aims to provide opportunities for AUN students and’ perform as an indicator of student mobility to see the flow of the inbound and outbound students among AUN Member Universities. In terms of literacy rate, it is relatively high level with 95,1 % in Thailand (as for 1998) Furthermore between 2002 and 2005 the number of out-of-school children of primary school age in the region has declined by 40% - an impressive achievement for such period of time. There was also a substantial increase in enrollment rates at the secondary level though the overall numbers are still low. At the tertiary level, enrollment rates in the region increased to 10 percent.

ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC)
            Since 1967 ASEAN has forged major political accords that have contributed greatly to regional peace and stability and to its relations with other countries, regions and organizations. Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality was signed to commit Southeast Asia as a free zone from any manner of interference by outside powers and to make concerted effort to broaden the areas of cooperation which would contribute to the strength, solidarity and closer relationship. Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) in Southeast Asia enshrines the mutual respect of one another’s sovereignty, noninterference in internal affairs, the peaceful settlement of intraregional disputes and effective cooperation.

Current Highlight

ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)
            The ASEAN Eonomic Community shall be the goal regional economic integration by 2015. AEC adopts the following key characteristic that are a single market and production base, a highly competitive economic region, a region of equitable economic development and a region of fully incorporated into the global economy. ASEAN is being actively involved in initiating and building regional economic linkages, engaging some of the most dynamic economies in the world.

ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC)
            The ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community aims to contribute to realizing an ASEAN community that is people oriented and socially responsible with a view to achieving enduring solidarity and unity among the peoples and Member Stated of ASEAN. It seeks to forge a common identity and build a caring and sharing society which is inclusive and where the well-being livelihood, and welfare of the peoples are enhanced.

ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC)
            ASEAN Political-Security Community aims to construct on what has been build over the years in the area of political and security cooperation. It aims to ensure that countries in the region live at peace with one another and with the world in a just, democratic and harmonious environment. It has the following components of political development, shaping and sharing of norms, conflicts prevention, conflicts resolution, post conflicts peace building and implementing mechanism.

Direction
            The ASEAN Vision 2020, adopted by the ASEAN Leaders on the 30th Anniversary of ASEAN, agreed on ashared vision ASEAN as a concert of Southeast Asian Nations, outward looking, living in peace, stability and prosperity, bonded together in partnership in dynamic development and in a community of caring societies align with its motto of “One vision, One Identity, One Community”

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