(AseanAll)  — The tenth Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in Anning,  Yunnan Province in southwest China August 15, 2025. 

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, co-chaired the meeting with Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa. Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lao PDR Thongsavanh Phomvihane, Myanmar's Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Than Swe, and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son attended the meeting. 

Delegates reviewed the progress of cooperation, noting the rapid expansion of the MLC framework and its tangible benefits for the Mekong region. Key achievements included the implementation of the outcomes of the 4th MLC Leaders’ Meeting, the 9th MLC Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, and the Five-Year Plan of Action (2023–2027) under three pillars: political and security cooperation, sustainable development, and cultural and social exchange.

Five priority areas were highlighted connectivity, water resource management, agriculture and poverty alleviation, cross-border trade, and industrial capacity building.  

Discussions focused on future cooperation, including modernizing economic infrastructure, promoting digital and innovation-driven growth, improving water resource governance, addressing non-traditional security challenges, and advancing human resource development—particularly in agriculture, clean energy, and tourism.

The meeting adopted three key documents: the 2024 Progress Report on the Five-Year Plan of Action, the 2025 Joint Research Report by the Global Center for Mekong Studies on security cooperation under the MLC, and the 2025 MLC Special Fund Project List.

The meeting concluded with a reaffirmation of the commitment to a closer, more effective MLC partnership aimed at ensuring shared prosperity across the Mekong region.