After the end of Cold War, China and ASEAN develop new international development strategies. China¡¦s new guiding principle of diplomacy is ¡§peace and development¡¨, and ASEAN hope to establish a multipolar world system through ¡§equidistant diplomacy¡¨ and regional economic integration. Due to the new international development strategies, China and ASEAN open the new cooperation opportunities, namely Mekong Subregion Cooperation, which concentrates on some functional sectors, such as transportation fundamental construction, investment, trade, agriculture and tourism sectors. With the effects of ¡§ramification¡¨, the functional cooperation is good in progress. This in turn pushes the interactions between China and ASEAN gradually ¡§spill-over¡¨ to political and security aspects which eventually make the ¡§East Asian Community¡¨ possible.

With China¡¦s renaissance the most important factor for its good neighborhood policy is to shape multilateral regime. In this thesis the author is attempted to use the approach of neoliberal institutionalism examining how China uses regime to carry out its national interest. Furthermore, the cooperation between China and ASEAN on regional trade agreements, confidence building measures, nontraditional security area, as well as building of East Asian Community will be discussed. In parallel with this context how China and ASEAN use regime to maintain their own interest and to prevent each other going beyond the proportional profit will be analysed.