Wuhan, July 16 (China News Service) "The development of the digital economy will provide more cooperation opportunities for China and ASEAN, and cooperation with China will also become a new driving force for ASEAN's economic development." Myanmar's ambassador to China Miao DanPei said in Wuhan on the 16th that ASEAN and China are each other's largest trading partners, which creates a good precondition for the two sides to carry out cooperation in the field of digital economy.
The 2021 China-ASEAN Digital Economy Development Cooperation Forum was held in Wuhan on the same day, and a number of envoys from ASEAN countries in China and heads of digital economy authorities attended the forum online and offline, generally optimistic about the future development prospects of China-ASEAN and look forward to strengthening cooperation and exchanges with China in the field of digital economy.
Miao Danpei said that ASEAN and China's economies are highly complementary, and the two sides have achieved many important cooperation results in trade, agriculture, transportation, science and technology and other fields in the past 30 years. He said that at present, ASEAN countries, including Myanmar, are committed to promoting the level of digitalization, "We are fully confident that the cooperation between ASEAN and China in the digital field can be successful and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results." ”
Indonesia's ambassador to China, Zhou Haoli, believes that digitalization is changing people's way of life and even the way the economy operates. China is developing strongly in the process of digitalization, while ASEAN countries have great potential for development in the field of digitalization, and the two sides complement each other's advantages and have a lot of space for cooperation.
Zhou Haoli said that at present, Indonesia and China have established a number of cooperation in the field of digital economy to jointly promote virtual payment, IT education, vocational training, e-commerce, financial technology and digital infrastructure construction, etc., hoping to take the forum as an opportunity to encourage more small and medium-sized enterprises on both sides to carry out closer cooperation in the construction of digital platforms.
In a video speech, The launch of the 2020 China-ASEAN Year of Digital Economy Cooperation provides opportunities for Thailand's digital transformation, and under the guidance of this guidance, Thailand has conducted extensive exchanges of experience between the public and private sectors to promote the development of the digital economy. Niue Ochiahip expressed the hope that through the holding of this forum, the interconnection between ASEAN and China in the field of digital economy will be effectively promoted, and the common progress and prosperity of ASEAN and China will be promoted.
Co-sponsored by the International Economic and Technical Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China, the China-ASEAN Center and the Wuhan Municipal People's Government, the forum, with the theme of "Sharing New Digital Opportunities to Discuss a New Future of Cooperation", aims to promote the development of the China-ASEAN Digital Economy Partnership to a wider range, deeper level and higher level. (End)
Source: China News Network
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