NANNING, Nov 28 (NNN-XINHUA) – The 17th China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, kicked off yesterday, highlighting booming digital economy cooperation and the implementation of a recently signed major trade pact.
Chinese President, Xi Jinping, called for cultivating a closer community with a shared future for China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), when addressing, via video, the opening ceremony.
Themed “Building the Belt and Road, Strengthening Digital Economy Cooperation,” this year’s expo aims to deepen cooperation in trade, the digital economy, science and technology, health, and other fields.
With an exhibition area of 104,000 square metres, the expo has 5,400 booths in Nanning, capital of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. More than 1,500 enterprises from home and abroad are participating virtually, in the four-day event.
The expo will also host 11 high-level forums and more than 160 economic and trade promotion activities.– NNN-XINHUA
