The 11th Forum on China-ASEAN Technology Transfer and Collaborative Innovation held last month, has served as a platform facilitating cooperation by promoting conversations. In the process, multiple southeast Asian countries and China have shared cooperative benefits. (PHOTO: MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)

By Staff Reporters

The 11th Forum on China-ASEAN Technology Transfer and Collaborative Innovation held last month, has served as a platform facilitating cooperation by promoting conversations. In the process, multiple southeast Asian countries and China have shared cooperative benefits.

The China -ASEAN Technology Transfer Center has built a technology transfer collaborative network covering China and ASEAN countries, with more than 2,800 members, and four technology transfer cooperation platforms in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, serving more than 18,000 enterprises in the region.

"Openness and cooperation is an inherent requirement for scientific and technological progress, innovation and development, and an inevitable choice for countries to deal with global challenges," said Dai Gang, director-general of the department of international cooperation of Ministry of Science and Technology.

During the first China-ASEAN Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Forum, organized this year, experts and scholars from ASEAN countries and a number of Chinese industry experts gave keynote speeches to bridge upstream and downstream international cooperation and exchanges for the industry. This was designed to stimulate innovative thinking, and to jointly explore opportunities for cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence.

China's Hainan province was invited as a "guest province" to participate in this forum. In the field of tropical crop agriculture, for example, Hainan and ASEAN countries have cooperated in the establishment of rubber, bananas and other tropical crop production and processing technology demonstration bases, offshore agricultural experiment stations, and jointly carried out a number of key technology research and development and application. In the field of the deep sea, Hainan and Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, as well as other countries, carried out in-depth cooperation surrounding abyssal deep-diving scientific research.

The forum also launched the 2023 China-ASEAN Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, released the ASEAN -oriented Cooperation Initiative on Artificial Intelligence Development and the China-ASEAN Work Program on Science Popularization Exchange and Cooperation.

Previously, the forum held 31 technical docking sessions in specialized fields, displayed and promoted a cumulative total of more than 4,200 projects, witnessed the signing of 79 key China-ASEAN innovation cooperation projects, and facilitated more than 300 signings or intentional signings between China and ASEAN countries.

The forum has added new sci-tech momentum into the establishment of a China-ASEAN community with a shared future.