The AsianPacific Economic Cooperation, shortened as the PECC, is a quasi-governmental organization consisting of representatives from governments, and business and academic worlds. In 1986, China was successfully admitted into the PECC, which initially started a cooperative mechanism in the region by involving the three AsianPacific powers, China, Japan and America. The whole process of admission was closely associated with the introduction of an independent and autonomous diplomatic policy, which resulted from the transformation of China’s diplomatic policy. With the introduction of China’s independent and autonomous diplomatic policy after the reform and opendoor policy, changes happened to China’s relationship with the AsianPacific nations, including Taiwan, the improvement of which was the primary reason for China’s admission to the PECC. This brought about not only the transformation of China’s diplomatic policy but also the intensification of this policy, which helped to lay a good foundation for China’s AsianPacific strategy after the Cold War.

PECC; diplomatic policy; China’s diplomacy; AsianPacificism; Olympic means; an independent and autonomous diplomatic policy