The conference was one of the major initiatives proposed by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the fourth East Asia Summit in Thailand in October last year.
It is the highest-level international meeting in the field of education under the framework of China-ASEAN cooperation.
"It is our shared responsibility to promote people-to-people contacts with a focus on education between China and ASEAN countries," she said.
China was ready to strengthen cooperation with ASEAN in people-to-people exchanges, she said.
Liu suggested China and the ASEAN nations create a new mechanism for exchanges, such as a high-level consultation mechanism, and institutionalize cooperation in education, science and technology, culture, health and sport.
She said they should make use of the China-ASEAN Center to promote friendly contacts and increase mutual understanding.
The China-ASEAN Center aimed to further tap cooperative potentials and attract more partners beyond the region.
Liu called for the implementation of the two China-ASEAN 10,000 Student Exchange Programs, making sure that the number of exchange students from ASEAN countries to China reached 100,000 by 2020 and vice versa.