2011年中国东盟建立正式关系已经20年了。在20年的历程中，中国东盟关系取得了巨大成就。在增进互信的基础上，双方的经济合作在贸易、投资、旅游等方面都有了长足的发展，并在2010年建成了中国东盟自由贸易区。双方贸易额正在从20世纪70年代中期的5亿美元，迈向2015年的5000亿美元。安全方面，中国东盟双方达成了一系列政治共识。同时，由于地区结构、战略考虑、发展速度、大国关系等方面的差异和国际及地区形势的变化，中国东盟关系也面临一些挑战：互信有待提高；中国在地区经济结构中的位置和实力快速变化使东盟一些成员担忧；地区合作和一体化的不同战略主张；等等。未来中国东盟友好合作的基本框架不会改变，但要强化互信、发展合作、产业融合，以提高双边关系结构的稳定性。
It has been a 20-year long official relation between China and Asean this year of 2011. During this two decades, great achievement has been made for the Sino-Asean bilateral relations. With improvement of the mutual trust, the bilateral trade, investment, tourism, etc. have been in remarkable growth between China and Asean. Eventually, China and Asean established FTA in 2010. The bilateral trade will be increasing from US$500 million in 1975 to US$500 billion in 2015 with more common interests in bilateral Economies, politics and security. However, Sino-Asean relations is also facing some challenges because of differences of regional structure, strategic consideration, high-speed development and power relations, as well as the international and regional changes. Such as, low mutual trust; Asean's worrisome on China's power in regional structure and position; different interpretation for the regional integration, etc.. The future Sino-Asean relations will in shape of friendship and cooperation in general, but the two sides should improve the mutual trust, development cooperation, industrial integration so as to keep the structure of bilateral relation in stability.
