The 1st East Asia Summit was held in Malaysia's capital city Kuala Lumpur on November 14, 2005. The heads of state or government of the 10 ASEAN members, China, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the Republic of Korea and India attended the summit.

Premier Wen Jiabao attended the summit and delivered a speech entitled " To Realize Mutual Benefits and Create a Win-Win Situation through Opening up and Inclusion".

Wen said the convening of the East Asia Summit is a great event for the East Asian cooperation process. As a natural requirement of accelerated economic globalization and regional cooperation and an inevitable result of the expansion of interdependency and common interests of the countries in the region, the summit marks a new period of development for East Asian cooperation.

Wen said the summit provides a new platform for the participants to discuss development strategies and will surely uplift East Asian cooperation to a broader context and a higher level. We should make full use of the platform to enhance dialogue, boost mutual trust, expand exchanges, and deepen cooperation so as to promote peace, development and prosperity of the region.

Wen noted East Asia is facing a number of difficulties and challenges. East Asia is plagued by both historical problems like the cloud of the "cold war", the territorial, ethnic and religious issues which have long existed and new problems like the increasingly prominent terrorism, transnational crimes, natural disasters and the spread of infectious diseases. It also has to face such problems as imbalanced development, widening wealth gap between the rich and the poor, sharp increase in energy and resources consumption as well as ecological and environmental deterioration. These intertwined problems have affected and restrained the stability and development of the region.

To address the above-mentioned issues and enhance the cooperation between East Asian nations and the region, Wen proposed to center around development, promote common prosperity, build harmonious relations, safeguard peace and stability, realize mutual benefit and create a win-win situation through cooperation.

Wen stressed particularly that China supports East Asian cooperation to be transparent and open. China is opposed to self-enclosed or exclusive East Asian cooperation or cooperation targeted to any particular party. China insists to keep open-minded and advocate open regionalism in the process of regional cooperation in a bid to promote common progress and development of the various countries.

Wen said East Asia should make greater efforts to promote regional cooperation participated by the countries in the region, with the characteristics of the region and suited to the needs of the region. We support ASEAN to play a leading role in the process of East Asian cooperation, and at the same time we should take into full consideration non-East Asian countries' reasonable interests in the region in order to enhance these countries' understanding and support for East Asian cooperation.

Wen also shared with the participants China's achievements in the reform and opening up, noting China will pursue a peaceful development path, firmly observe the guideline of "being a good neighbor and partner" and the policy of "fostering an amicable, peaceful and prosperous neighborhood" and is committed to developing friendly cooperative relations with other countries in the region.