KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang said here Tuesday that China is ready to deepen strategic alignment with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on the basis of mutual respect and equal treatment, as well as enhance coordination of macroeconomic policies.

Addressing the inaugural ASEAN-China-GCC Summit, Li called on the three sides to support each other in addressing new challenges in the course of development, and to foster new models of international industrial and economic cooperation.