The 2026 Lancang-Mekong Local Government Cooperation Forum and Historic and Cultural Cities Dialogue Conference hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries was held in Leshan, Sichuan. The theme of the event was “Silk Road Continues China and the New Journey”. More than 200 representatives from local governments, enterprises, culture, tourism and other fields and envoys from 15 Chinese provinces and cities and 14 provinces and cities of the five Mekong countries attended the event to have in-depth exchanges on topics such as digital and intelligent transformation, new quality productivity, integration of industry and education, poverty reduction and poverty alleviation, cultural protection and heritage, and friendship city exchanges and cooperation to discuss the construction of the “Lancang-Mekong Cooperation 2.0 version”. The results of the conference were announced after the meeting. Delegates warmly congratulated the successful holding of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. All parties agreed to uphold the Lancang-Mekong spirit, promote Lancang-Mekong culture, deepen good neighborliness and friendship, solidly promote local exchanges and cooperation, and work together to start a new “golden decade” of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation to write a new chapter in the common destiny of the Lancang-Mekong countries.

The 2026 Lancang-Mekong Local Government Cooperation Forum and Historic and Cultural Cities Dialogue Conference hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries was held in Leshan, Sichuan. The theme of the event was “Silk Road Continues China and the New Journey”. More than 200 representatives from local governments, enterprises, culture, tourism and other fields and envoys from 15 Chinese provinces and cities and 14 provinces and cities of the five Mekong countries attended the event to have in-depth exchanges on topics such as digital and intelligent transformation, new quality productivity, integration of industry and education, poverty reduction and poverty alleviation, cultural protection and heritage, and friendship city exchanges and cooperation to discuss the construction of the “Lancang-Mekong Cooperation 2.0 version”. The results of the conference were announced after the meeting. Delegates warmly congratulated the successful holding of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. All parties agreed to uphold the Lancang-Mekong spirit, promote Lancang-Mekong culture, deepen good neighborliness and friendship, solidly promote local exchanges and cooperation, and work together to start a new “golden decade” of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation to write a new chapter in the common destiny of the Lancang-Mekong countries.