JAKARTA: China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) should speed up their negotiations on version 3.0 of the China-Asean Free Trade Area (FTA), Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Wang Yi said on Wednesday.

Wang, who is in the Indonesian capital for a series of Asean foreign ministers' meetings on Thursday and Friday, made the remarks at a meeting with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan.

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