China's blueprint means opportunities, not threats (3)

Similarly, if the CPC's ambition to transform the Chinese economy to one driven more by innovation and technologies comes a reality, more lower-end manufacturers will move operations to ASEAN countries with cheaper labor and resources and create more jobs there. Some foreign companies are already doing that.

By paying greater attention to resource and energy saving in its future development, as the CPC vows, China will contribute to allay the conflicts between population growth and limited resources in the whole region. It will also ease the energy and resource pressure on other Asian countries.

However, all those trends can be undermined if rifts run deeper between China and ASEAN members.

In Cambodia, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged that "the ASEAN way," which calls for shelving disputes and promoting consensus and unity, should continue to be followed. Those with vision and care for the future of China and ASEAN will agree with him.