Digital economy cooperation opens new doors By LIU XUAN and ZHANG LI in Nanning | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-07-14 07:15 Share
China, ASEAN members tap potential amid pandemic
In October, Nguyen, a man in Vietnam who has the inherited blood disorder thalassemia, successfully booked an online appointment with a medical expert in China.
The man, who only wanted to be known by his surname, constantly feels tired, is short of breath and appears pale.
An online platform enabled him to make an appointment with an expert working at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University in Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
China s foreign trade rises to record high By ZHONG NAN and LIU ZHIHUA | China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-14 07:03 Containers are unloaded at Qingdao Port in Shandong province in March. [Photo by Yu Fangping/For China Daily]
China s foreign trade climbed by 27.1 percent year-on-year to 18.07 trillion yuan ($2.8 trillion) during the first half of 2021, driven by robust demand due to the rapid recovery in major economies and the fast growth of cross-border e-commerce, statistics from the General Administration of Customs showed on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the nation s exports surged 28.1 percent year-on-year to 9.85 trillion yuan, and its imports grew by 25.9 percent to 8.22 trillion yuan. Compared with the same period of 2019, the nation s total foreign trade expanded by 22.8 percent.
The region s 10-member economic union the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN is focused on technology neutrality even as the threat of bifurcation lingers, according to Josephine Teo, Singapore s Minister of Communications and Information.
Technology neutrality refers to individuals and businesses having the freedom to decide which technology is most appropriate and suitable to meet their needs, without being influenced to use particular type of technology. This threat has not gone away even with Covid-19 having disrupted all of our economies, Teo told CNBC s Martin Soong during a panel discussion at the Asia Tech x Singapore conference on Tuesday.
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