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Xinhua News Agency, Nanning, November 26 Title: A special event and unlimited cooperation, written at the opening of the 17th China-ASEAN Exhibition and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit
Xinhua News Agency reporters Wang Junwei, Pan Qiang, Guo Yifan
On the banks of the Yongjiang River, the mountains and the sea agree. From November 27 to 30, the 17th China-ASEAN Exhibition and the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit will be held in Nanning, Guangxi, an event that will brighten the recovery of the world economy. Over the past 16 years, this grand event has always been focused on the purpose of promoting China-ASEAN friendly cooperation, platform building, channel unlocking, and improving exchanges. The scope of services has expanded from the construction of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP). Promote the process of regional economic integration.
Economic and trade cooperation is deep
This year’s event will focus on the theme of “jointly building the belt and the road” and jointly prospering the digital economy. Through a series of events such as exhibitions and forums, it will deepen cooperation in various fields such as economy and trade, digital economy, technology and health, and promote a China-ASEAN community of shared future. Construction reached a new level.
“The Chinese market is huge. The Expo has always provided channels and platforms for Malaysian companies, especially SMEs, to enter the Chinese market,” said Azlim Zakaria, Consul General of the Malaysian Consulate General in Nanning.
The first 16 major fairs attracted 832,000 Chinese and foreign businessmen to participate in the exhibition and achieved outstanding results in goods trade, investment, service trade, international cooperation in production capacity and cross-border park construction, becoming an important platform for deepen cooperation between China and ASEAN.
Today, the new corona pneumonia epidemic is still spreading globally and the global economy has been severely affected. However, the economic and trade cooperation between China and ASEAN has maintained steady growth. In the first 10 months, the volume of bilateral trade has increased by 7% year-on-year, realizing the story that the two sides are the most important trading partners of the other. Sexual advance.
“During the epidemic, we felt the cordial relationship between ASEAN and China as friendly neighbors.” Huang Yurong, Consul General of the Consulate General of Vietnam in Nanning, said that under the impact of the epidemic, China and ASEAN worked together to maintain the stable operation of the industrial chain and supply chain and promote Chinese economic and trade cooperation. -ASEAN. Constant growth.
Gao Feng, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, said that the total planned area of the physical display of this exhibition is 104,000 square meters and the total number of booths is 5400. There are more than 1,500 exhibitors in the “Cloud”, including more 1,200 national companies and more than 300 foreign companies.
Wang Lei, Secretary General of the China-ASEAN Expo Secretariat, said that the “Eastern Cloud Expo” platform was launched at this grand event. Through online and offline integration, a “1 + 1> 2” pattern was formed to better serve bilateral cooperation and the “One Belt” The construction of “One Road” and the online platform will operate as normal way in the future, creating a “China-ASEAN Expo that never ends”.
Digital interconnection is smoother
Not long ago, more than 350,000 brands and merchants participated in the “Double Eleven” carnival shopping festival of Lazada (Chinese name: Lazada), a mainstream e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia, and thousands of new brands appeared on this annual shopping promotion. The “Double Eleven” concept, which originated in China, has gradually penetrated the hearts of merchants and consumers in Southeast Asia.
2020 is the year of China-ASEAN digital economic cooperation. The digital economy has played an unprecedented role in preventing and fighting the epidemic, resuming work and production and ensuring people’s lives. Wang Lei said that new business models and models such as smart manufacturing, 5G, big data and smart cities are becoming new driving forces for the cooperation between the two sides. This event will hold multiple forums around the digital economy and showcase China-ASEAN digital technology exhibitions. In addition, the first English-language Blue Book of the China-ASEAN Expo will be published during the conference: “Developing China’s Digital Economy and ASEAN Trade Opportunities.”
“At present, the role of information and communication technology is increasing around the world. We have witnessed that the digital economy has become a new engine for economic growth in China and ASEAN,” he said Verasa Sompong, Consul General of the Laos Consulate in Nanning. Digital economic cooperation is for Laos and China. The two countries have given new impetus to the economic development of trade, investment, tourism and the entire region.
Zhai Kun, director of the ASEAN National Research Center at Peking University, said that although personnel exchanges between countries have declined due to the impact of the epidemic, the globalization process has not stalled and Internet technology has brought online connections between countries closer.
“Digital services such as cross-border online shopping, online education, telemedicine and collaborative office are more widely used, and the consumption patterns of global consumers continue to be innovative with the development of the digital economy,” Zhai said. Kun.
More expectation of mutual benefit and mutual benefit
In the pavilion of the Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center, there is a dazzling array of products from ASEAN, Japan, South Korea, Australia and elsewhere, and exhibitors are making final preparations. In this year’s exhibition “One Belt One Road” international exhibition area showroom, Japanese and Korean skin care products, Indonesian teak furniture and other products are neatly displayed, waiting to be revealed after the opening of the exhibition.
On November 15, the 10 ASEAN countries and China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement, which marks the birth of the world’s largest free trade area. .
Gao Feng presented that there were 229 booths in the “Belt and Road” international exhibition area of this exhibition, and 22 countries, including Pakistan, Japan, South Korea, Australia and India, participated in the exhibition.
Huang Yurong said that the signing of the RCEP will greatly promote the development of economic globalization, and will also usher in a new era of rapid development in economic and trade exchanges between ASEAN and China. The world’s largest free trade zone will open up the markets of member states more effectively, effectively stimulating economic growth, and thus bring more convenience to people’s lives.
Since the 11th session of the Expo, a special partner invitation mechanism has been established to invite countries outside of China and ASEAN to act as special partners. Among the RCEP countries, Australia and South Korea have been invited to participate.
Wang Lei said that the Expo, as a model to promote China-ASEAN regional cooperation, will continue to promote political, diplomatic, economic and trade cooperation in the future, and will serve the RCEP member states to participate in building the ” Strip and Route “at a deeper level.
