On September 11, the State Council Information Office held a conference on China-ASEAN economic and trade cooperation and the 21st China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit. Li Fei, vice minister of commerce, said at the conference that China and ASEAN countries have strong economic complementarities and broad prospects for cooperation in the fields of digital and green economy. China and Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia and other ASEAN countries signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Strengthening Investment Cooperation in the Field of Digital Economy and the Memorandum of Understanding on Promoting Investment Cooperation in the Field of Green Development, and the China-ASEAN FTA Version 3.0 for the first time included a special chapter on digital economy and green economy, which fully demonstrates the importance of China and ASEAN countries in digital and green development. This fully demonstrates the positive willingness of China and ASEAN countries to attach importance to digital and green development and continuously expand relevant cooperation.
As a next step, China will cooperate in the following areas:
The first is to strengthen policy docking and promote interactive development. We will utilize the bilateral economic and trade joint committees between China and ASEAN countries, as well as mechanisms such as the working groups on investment cooperation, trade facilitation and e-commerce, to strengthen policy docking, encourage exchanges in the industry, and promote synergistic development between China and ASEAN countries in such areas as green energy, information technology and e-commerce, so as to provide a mechanism for guaranteeing cooperation in emerging areas.
The second is to play the role of a platform to build consensus on cooperation. During this year's Expo, activities such as the promotion of environmental protection innovation and cooperation, the exchange of new energy to the sea, and the China-Indonesia dialogue on environmental protection industry will be organized to make full use of the Expo platform to strengthen exchanges with ASEAN countries in the new fields of production, learning and research, to help ASEAN countries to improve their capacity-building and industry docking, and to improve the quality of the development of the emerging fields.
The third is to stimulate the advantages of enterprises and enhance the effectiveness of cooperation. We will continue to encourage enterprises to expand economic and trade cooperation with ASEAN countries in accordance with the principles of marketization and commercialization. Focus on new energy vehicles and lithium batteries,photovoltaic (e.g. cell)In order to promote the efficient flow of personnel, materials, capital and information of all parties and stimulate the new impetus of industrial cooperation, a number of cooperation projects with high scientific and technological content, large investment volume and strong industrial impetus have been explored in the fields of science and technology, materials, capital and information of all parties.
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