"China is willing to work with ASEAN countries to create more new cooperation highlights in smart cities, 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, telemedicine and other fields, strengthen data security protection and policy communication and coordination, and cultivate more for the economic and social development of both sides. New momentum." On November 27, 2020, President Xi Jinping delivered a video speech at the opening ceremony of the 17th China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, and put forward specific initiatives for deepening China-ASEAN digital economy cooperation .

Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and ASEAN are connected by mountains and rivers, and the ASEAN market has always occupied an important position in Guangxi's foreign trade. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, the "Maritime Silk Road" with Hepu, Guangxi as the port of departure opened the prelude to friendly exchanges between the people of China and Southeast Asia. In recent years, Guangxi has accelerated the construction of an important node hub for the domestic and international dual cycle, relying on the construction of China-ASEAN Information Port, and speeding up the construction of the "digital Silk Road". Digital economic cooperation has become a highlight of the economic integration of China and ASEAN.

Major Open Platform Rio Tinto ASEAN Market

"The China-ASEAN Economic and Trade Center will provide enterprises with more convenient services for international trade." said Zheng Zuoliang, chairman of the Guangxi Chamber of Commerce in Brunei. China has promoted Guangxi and even China’s high-quality products abroad."

In April 2021, the China-ASEAN Economic and Trade Center, located in the Nanning area of the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone, was officially inaugurated for operation. As a major landmark project of the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone, the China-ASEAN Economic and Trade Center will vigorously promote international cooperation between China and ASEAN and even RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) countries, and promote the new land-sea corridors in the west and the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone , Integration and development of major open strategic platforms such as China-ASEAN Information Port.

"The China-ASEAN Economic and Trade Center integrates the advantages of a series of major open platforms in Guangxi, promotes cross-border finance, cross-border logistics, legal affairs, taxation, and international consulting, etc., and provides a more complete marketization for enterprises in China-ASEAN and RCEP countries and even the world. Service." said Tan Xiuhong, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and full-time deputy director of the Free Trade Office.

Entering the China-ASEAN Digital Economy Industrial Park, a major project coordinated and promoted by Guangxi, construction is in full swing. Li Yan, vice president of Guangxi Digital Economy Ecological Industry Co., Ltd., introduced: "The International Exchange Center will be put into use in the near future, and other sections of the first phase of the industrial park, such as the adaptation base and the industrial center, have also been fully rolled out. The park will be opened in September 2021. "At present, the China-ASEAN Digital Economy Industrial Park has invested a total of 529 million yuan and 43 contracted enterprises. It is estimated that by 2025, there will be more than 300 enterprises settled in the park, which will drive investment of more than 10 billion yuan, provide more than 20,000 jobs, and contribute more than 50 billion yuan in direct revenue.

Liu Hong, deputy general manager of Guangxi Investment Group and chairman of Digital Guangxi Group, said that Guangxi is currently in a period of historical opportunities where multiple strategies are superimposed. Digital Guangxi Group will give full play to its advantages, benchmark international first-class standards, and build a China-ASEAN digital economy. The industrial park creates a high-quality environment for the development of the digital industry.

By the end of 2020, 3 international submarine cables, 12 international terrestrial optical cables, 13 international communication nodes, 1 national domain name CN top-level node, and 1 Nanning regional communication service international gateway have been completed and put into use in the China-ASEAN Information Port. China-ASEAN Information Port Big Data Center, China Mobile (Guangxi) Data Center, China Telecom (Guangxi) ASEAN Data Center, China-ASEAN Information Port Laos Cloud Computing Center and other domestic and foreign cloud computing centers have been completed and put into operation.

Today, Guangxi is actively building digital technology innovation platforms such as the China-ASEAN Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center, the China-ASEAN Blockchain Innovation Center, and the Beibu Gulf Big Data Exchange Center to provide strong support for Guangxi and ASEAN digital industry cooperation.

Digital economy empowers high-quality development

In March 2021, the Guangxi 5G Industry Alliance, which aims to help build the "Digital Silk Road" for ASEAN and promote the construction of China-ASEAN Information Port, was established in Nanning. The alliance will deepen Guangxi's digital economic cooperation based on smart city, 5G, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, big data, blockchain, telemedicine and other fields in the future.

As the chairman unit of the Guangxi 5G Industry Alliance, Lou Xiangping, chairman and general manager of China Mobile Guangxi Company, stated that the alliance will actively "go out" and work hand in hand with the 5G industry alliances in the leading provinces to carry out multi-field and cross-industry multi-party exchanges and integration , To jointly promote the completion of the "Digital Silk Road" for ASEAN.

Guangxi is the core fulcrum of the China-ASEAN Information Port. In recent years, it has issued the "Guangxi Digital Economy Development Plan", "Guangxi's Action Plan for Accelerating the 5G Industry Development", "Several Measures to Accelerate the Development of Guangxi's Digital Economy" and other policy documents to accelerate the development of the ASEAN region. Information infrastructure construction.

With the continuous consolidation of Guangxi's digital infrastructure construction and the continuous release of the vitality of the digital economy, the scale of Guangxi's digital economy will reach 726.7 billion yuan in 2020, and the number of digital economy market entities will grow to more than 13,000, and a total of 31,000 5G base stations have been built, which has become a driving force for Guangxi. An important driving force for economic recovery.

Thanks to the construction of the China-ASEAN Information Port, Guangxi is currently accelerating the development of its digital economy. It has deployed 26 digital economy industrial parks in 9 cities including Nanning, Liuzhou, and Guilin. The industrial structure of "one core, one center, three bases" Initially formed. The investment of digital companies such as Huawei, Inspur, and Alibaba in Guangxi has also formed a whole industry chain integrating intelligent manufacturing, cloud computing big data center, core research and development, and digital industry incubation; JD (Beihai) cloud computing big data industry base project A total of 138 enterprises have been introduced, achieving operating income of 7.534 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 90.1%; 32 China-ASEAN Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center docking projects; Nanning's national-level interconnection backbone direct connection point is expected to be completed and operated in September; Beidou for ASEAN More than 100 sets of technology applications have been deployed in ASEAN countries.

In addition, Guangxi is also focusing on cultivating a group of local backbone enterprises with core competitiveness, such as China-ASEAN Information Port Co., Ltd., Digital Guangxi Group Co., Ltd., and Guangxi Beitou Xinchuang Technology Investment Group Co., Ltd., to give full play to the leading role of leading enterprises in radiation. Promote the high-quality development of Guangxi's digital economy.

In the first half of 2021, Guangxi will focus on the construction of China-ASEAN Information Port Project, and continuously enrich and improve the information port construction carrier. The 46 projects corresponding to the overall plan have started 24 projects and completed 14; infrastructure, information sharing, technical cooperation, economic and trade services , The construction of the five platform projects for people-to-people exchanges went smoothly. Of the 115 key construction projects planned by Guangxi, 93 have started.

"We will vigorously promote digital industrialization and industrial digitization, and strive for the added value of the core industries of Guangxi's digital economy to account for more than 6% of the regional GDP by 2025, and help promote the high-quality development of the western economy." Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Big Data Development Bureau Said Su Aimin, Director of the Technology and Application Promotion Division.

Cross-border e-commerce has become a new engine of development

On May 21, a freezer container ship carrying 147 tons of Cambodian mangoes arrived at Qinzhou Port. This is the first time Cambodian fresh mangoes have been exported to China, and subsequently sold to Beijing, Henan, Zhejiang, Shandong and other places.

Qinzhou Port has previously opened Thailand and Vietnam Fruit Express, and now it has opened the Cambodia Fruit Express as a normal way to build the most convenient "sea express" for ASEAN agricultural products to reach the Chinese mainland. In the future, Qinzhou Port will open more ASEAN fruit express lines to provide a convenient customs clearance environment for fresh fruits from ASEAN countries to enter my country and even be exported to the Central and Eastern European markets via Qinzhou Port.

As a new land-sea channel in the west and an important hub node of the Belt and Road Initiative, Guangxi has 11 designated supervision sites for imported fruits, including Youyiguan, Dongxing, and Qinzhou Port, and the volume of imported fruits ranks in the forefront of the country.

In the past two years, the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone has successively been approved as Nanning and Chongzuo Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zones, and Qinzhou and Chongzuo Cross-border E-commerce Retail Import Pilots. Cross-border e-commerce import and export trade has grown rapidly, which is activating Guangxi. At the same time as the economic development is full of spring water, it has also become a new engine for the development of trade between China and ASEAN. In the first half of 2021, the cross-border e-commerce transaction volume of Nanning and Chongzuo in Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone was 3.433 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 508.9%.

The Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone plays a leading role, strengthens cooperation with local governments where each area is located, and jointly cultivates new business forms and new models of cross-border e-commerce. Unique advantages such as convenient logistics. Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone cross-border e-commerce online public service platform, bonded warehouses and cross-border commodity display online and offline experience store infrastructure construction is improving day by day, and more than 100 e-commerce companies such as Best Logistics, Overseas Warehouses, and Super Technology have been introduced successively Home, the initial formation of industrial agglomeration.

Guangxi is adjacent to ASEAN countries and has obvious geographical advantages. Relying on the construction of new land-sea corridors in the west, a cross-border e-commerce logistics system for ASEAN has gradually formed. The Nanning area opened a China-Vietnam cross-border container train and Nanning-Manila, Nanning-Bangkok cross-border e-commerce special lines to improve cross-border transportation capacity and efficiency; Chongzuo area opened up a green channel for cross-border e-commerce goods, in the Pingxiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone Customs clearance of cross-border e-commerce goods can reach Vietnam in 1 day, Thailand in 2 days, and the United States in 3 days.

In order to speed up the cooperation between Guangxi and ASEAN in the field of e-commerce, the People’s Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has recently issued the "Regarding China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone as Leading to Accelerate the Construction of ASEAN-oriented Cross-border Industrial Chain Supply Chain Value Chain" "Implementation Opinions". The "Opinions" proposed that from 2021 to 2022, Guangxi will focus on building a cross-border industrial chain for ASEAN-oriented electronic information, new chemical materials, and Chinese medicinal materials processing, and promote the construction of China and Malaysia "two parks" vehicles and new energy vehicles. Cross-border industrial chain, planning to promote the construction of a processing industrial chain for ASEAN specialty products such as rubber, palm oil, wood, and fruits.

"Guangxi promotes a series of policy support, through policy encouragement, financial support, etc., to build cross-border e-commerce into a new engine and growth point for promoting Guangxi's high-level openness and high-quality development." Suo, Deputy Director of the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Jian said. Editor/Tian Zengpeng