On January 8, Vice President Yuan Mindao of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) met with a delegation led by Mohammad Firdaus bin Abdul Rahman, President of the Brunei-China Friendship Association (BCFA), at the CPAFFC. The two sides held in-depth discussions on China-Brunei and China-ASEAN people-to-people exchanges.

Yuan Mindao commended the BCFA for its active efforts in strengthening the people-to-people friendship between China and Brunei, as well as between China and ASEAN. He expressed the willingness to further strengthen cooperation with the BCFA, expand personnel exchanges, foster friendly interactions, and promote more fruitful outcomes in the China-Brunei friendship.

Mohammad Firdaus bin Abdul Rahman stated that the BCFA would continue to enhance cooperation with the CPAFFC and contribute to deepening the strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries, advancing China-Brunei relations toward the establishment of a China-Brunei community with a shared future. Also present at the meeting were Zhu Dan, Director-General of the CPAFFC Department of East Asian Affairs, and Joshua Kok Hwa Law, Chief Commercial Officer at Royal Brunei Airlines.