Core reading In recent years, ASEAN countries have adhered to the central position of the ASEAN regional structure, continuously enhanced political cohesion and promoted the improvement of ASEAN's political security, economic, social and cultural integration. Since the outbreak, ASEAN countries have taken positive actions to strengthen cooperation in vaccine distribution, public health crisis response and other fields, highlighting the advantages of building an ASEAN community. Novel coronavirus pneumonia was affected by the new crown pneumonia and the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth ASEAN summit was held in Brunei City, Bandar Seri Begawan. The theme of the ASEAN summit is "common concern, common response and common prosperity". Around the three pillars of ASEAN political security community, economic community and social and cultural community, the participants put forward a series of objectives and achievements, including disaster and emergency response, support for multilateralism, post epidemic recovery, vaccine procurement cooperation, etc. The presidential statement issued after the meeting called for continuing to promote the construction of ASEAN community, meet common challenges and promote the comprehensive recovery of regional economy. The level of political mutual trust has been continuously improved In novel coronavirus pneumonia, Hassanal, Sultan, Brunei, said at the closing ceremony of ASEAN summit that ASEAN countries have fruitful consultations on the current regional and international situation and the future direction of ASEAN development, discussed ways to further strengthen relations with all countries, such as China, Japan and South Korea, and decided to ensure that the new crown pneumonia epidemic situation is achieved through ensuring vaccine supply. Strive to achieve regional economic recovery in the post epidemic era. Hassanal also said that the construction of ASEAN community is making continuous progress, and adhering to multilateralism is very important to the construction of ASEAN Community in the future. At the end of 2015, the ASEAN community, the first subregional community in Asia, announced its formal completion and adopted the ASEAN community vision 2025 document. According to this 10-year plan, the ASEAN community will achieve the goals of strong political cohesion, economic integration, social and cultural harmony and stability by 2025. In recent years, the construction of ASEAN community has made steady progress. The president's statement of the ASEAN Summit stated that it is necessary to further strengthen the central position of the ASEAN Community and the unity of countries in the region, fully and effectively implement the ASEAN community vision 2025, and will begin to formulate the ASEAN community development vision after 2025. Anthony Lopez, chief editor of the Philippine Asian business week, told our reporter that in the process of coping with regional challenges and strengthening regional cooperation, ASEAN countries have become increasingly close and the level of political mutual trust has been continuously improved. "In the ASEAN community vision 2025, political security is an important content. We have ensured the overall security and stability of ASEAN by focusing on ASEAN and building an open and inclusive regional cooperation framework." Lopez believes that according to the development vision of the ASEAN community, ASEAN will increasingly deal with political and security issues at home and abroad and strengthen multilateral cooperation in an overall manner. The pace of economic integration has accelerated The transformation of digital economy is an important driving force in the process of ASEAN economic integration in recent years. According to the ASEAN digital economy report, the total amount of commodity transactions in the Internet industry in ASEAN will exceed US $100 billion in 2020 and is expected to exceed US $300 billion by 2025. It is predicted that the proportion of digital economy in GDP of ASEAN countries will increase from 1.3% in 2015 to 8.5% in 2025. In the president's statement, the ASEAN Summit stressed that ASEAN recognizes that the pace of digital transformation in the region is accelerating, especially during the epidemic, and digital technology is more rapidly applied to the social and economic development of various countries. ASEAN strongly advocates seizing the opportunity of the fourth industrial revolution and hopes that countries in the region will strengthen cooperation in the fields of network security, artificial intelligence and blockchain, and integrate ASEAN economy by accelerating digital transformation, so as to inject impetus into regional economic recovery. The 20th ASEAN Economic Community Council, held not long ago, officially adopted the sribaga Gulf road map: ASEAN digital transformation agenda for accelerating ASEAN economic recovery and digital economy integration, setting a clear timetable for the development of ASEAN digital economy. Countries are expected to complete the negotiation of ASEAN digital economy framework agreement in 2025 and finally establish a connected digital trade ecosystem within ASEAN. Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail said that the fight against the epidemic has accelerated the development of ASEAN's digital economy. ASEAN as a whole can strengthen cooperation with China and other digital economy powers. "ASEAN economic integration requires every country to contribute to the development of digital economy. Efforts must be made to narrow the gap between ASEAN in digital technology, infrastructure and digital talents." Vietnamese Prime Minister fan Mingzheng said that new economic factors such as digital transformation will promote ASEAN to participate more deeply in regional and global supply chains and improve the attractiveness of ASEAN market. Regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP) is also an important part of ASEAN economic integration. Last November, the 10 ASEAN countries and China, South Korea, Japan, New Zealand and Australia signed RCEP. At present, the agreement has been ratified by China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Brunei. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said recently that the epidemic has caused regional economic difficulties, and ASEAN countries should make greater efforts to promote economic integration, including approving RCEP as soon as possible, so that it will take effect in January 2022 as planned. Regional public health capacity has been enhanced The president's statement of the ASEAN summit said that in addition to Member States' respective response to the epidemic, ASEAN is also making overall efforts to promote fair distribution and stable supply of vaccines and enhance regional public health capacity. In June this year, the ASEAN anti epidemic fund was officially established to help ASEAN countries purchase epidemic prevention materials, develop new vaccines and strengthen their response capacity to infectious diseases. So far, the fund has recorded $25.8 million. The ASEAN Summit decided to allocate US $10.5 million for regional countries to purchase new vaccines. The construction of ASEAN emergency medical materials reserve is being accelerated. It is understood that Singapore has donated S $7.9 million (about S $1.35) of medical supplies to the reserve, and Thailand and Vietnam have also donated drugs and medical supplies to the reserve respectively. Lao Vice Foreign Minister tunpan said that in the process of building the ASEAN community, ASEAN has cooperated closely and established a unified public health system, which has promoted and alleviated the problems caused by vaccine shortage and different vaccination progress of various countries to a certain extent. ASEAN Secretary General Lin Yuhui said that in the face of the challenge of the epidemic, the economies of ASEAN countries have shown resilience, and it is expected that the regional economy will resume growth this year and next. Lin Yuhui said that ASEAN's economic recovery depends on the continuous promotion of vaccination programs in member countries. ASEAN will ensure that Member States have fair and reliable access to vaccine supplies through various means such as the anti epidemic fund. The ASEAN summit also adopted the "tourism corridor arrangement framework". ASEAN countries have decided to actively consider adopting and mutually recognizing electronic vaccination certificates, so as to realize isolation free travel within ASEAN as soon as possible and restore and strengthen connectivity. Hong Feng, chairman of Siam think tank in Thailand, told our reporter that the road of post epidemic recovery in ASEAN countries will be long and challenging. It is necessary to simultaneously promote mass vaccination and public health security, and ASEAN has advantages as a subregional community. Hong Feng stressed: "in the face of the epidemic, ASEAN countries do not fight alone, but help and interact with each other, and rely on collective strength to promote the regional economic recovery as soon as possible. In recent years, the continuous promotion of the ASEAN community has benefited the people of ASEAN countries." (outlook new era)