On September 3, 2010, the release ceremony of China's Foreign Affairs 2009 photo album was held in Beijing. More than 170 people, including Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Acting Dean of the Diplomatic Corps to China and Singapore Ambassador to China Chin Siat Yoon and other foreign diplomats to China, officials from related departments of the central government, representatives of major Chinese and overseas media and publishing houses attended the ceremony.

Yang and Chin addressed the ceremony respectively. Yang said that the world is showing increasing interest in China's foreign policy, diplomatic vision and practices. Since the inauguration last year, China's Foreign Affairs photo album has been well-received in China and abroad and played an important role of enhancing understanding of China's foreign affairs and promoting China's friendship and cooperation with the rest of the world. The photo album integrates diplomatic facts and photographic art, records China's foreign affairs in the past year with vivid pictures and detailed essay, reflects China's commitment to the path of peaceful development and the win-win strategy of opening up and expresses China's sincere aspiration for common development and prosperity of the whole world.

On behalf of the diplomatic corps to China, Chin extended congratulation on the release of China's Foreign Affairs 2009 photo album. He said that with vivid and accurate pictures the album truthfully displays China's foreign affairs in the past year and fully reflects China's indispensable role in international affairs. He expects the international community to better understand China and its foreign affairs through the album.

A video clip of China's Foreign Affairs 2009 photo album which was played during the release ceremony vividly demonstrated a spectacular scroll of contemporary Chinese diplomacy to the Chinese and foreign participants.

The annual photo album on China's foreign affairs was edited by the Department of Policy Planning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and published by the World Affairs Press. China's Foreign Affairs 2009 photo album is composed of 8 parts, i.e. high-level exchanges, tackling international financial crisis, addressing climate change, multilateral diplomacy, diplomacy for the people, humanities diplomacy, 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and conducting diplomacy scientifically and presents in Chinese, English and French a panorama of major events and activities of Chinese diplomacy in 2009.