Following the decision to establish an ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ASEAN-China FTA) made at the ASEAN-China Summit on 6 November 2001 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, the leaders of ASEAN member states and China adopted the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Co-operation between the Association of South East Asian Nations and the People's Republic of China at the ASEAN-China Summit on 4 November 2002 in Phnom Penh. The objectives of the Framework Agreement are, among others <<