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NANNING, China, Oct. 25, 2022 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

Recently, the 10th Forum on China-ASEAN Technology Transfer and Collaborative

Innovation, an important high-level forum under the framework of China-ASEAN

Expo (CAEXPO), has been held in Nanning, Guangxi. Coinciding with the inaugural

year of China-ASEAN comprehensive strategic partnership, the event announces

the launch of a special action for technology transfer between China and the

ASEAN, involving 1,000 advanced and applicable technologies in sustainable

fields selected nationwide and uniformly introduced to ASEAN nations.

China-ASEAN Technology Transfer Alliance - the first cooperation mechanism of

technology transfer for ASEAN in China - is officially established, which will

join hands with China's provincial and municipal innovation institutions with

strong scientific and technological innovation capabilities and pooled

resources to more effectively meet the innovation needs of ASEAN nations. The

opening ceremony of China-ASEAN Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition &

China-ASEAN Innovation and Entrepreneurship Camp is unveiled at the same time,

striving to make the Competition the most influential and the most participated

with the highest project quality among other ASEAN innovation and

entrepreneurship contests as well as an open platform for resources sharing,

value enhancement and strength demonstration.

Over the last few years, Guangxi has given full play to its role as an

important gateway for China's opening up and cooperation with ASEAN members,

including, for instance, always taking ASEAN as the priority direction of

overseas science and technology collaboration, positively building an

ASEAN-oriented science and technology innovation and cooperation zone, and

thoroughly implementing the China-ASEAN Science and Technology Partnership

Program and the "Belt and Road" Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan.

The province has carried out fruitful exchange and collaboration activities

with the member countries of ASEAN countries in manifold fields, such as

exchanges of science and technology and humanity, co-construction of

laboratories and science and technology parks, technology transfer, and

innovation and entrepreneurship.

Guangxi has currently set up bilateral governmental technology transfer

mechanisms with nine ASEAN countries (including Thailand and Cambodia), formed

joint working groups on technology transfer with seven ASEAN members, and built

a China-ASEAN technology transfer collaboration network of over 2,600 members,

covering 10 ASEAN nations and some "Belt and Road" countries, according to

Department of Science and Technology of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

In the meantime, with the support of the China-ASEAN Technology Transfer Center

and the Forum on China-ASEAN Technology Transfer and Collaborative Innovation,

Guangxi has kept the "ASEAN Talented Young Scientists Guangxi Program" running

and attracted a group of scientists and technicians from ASEAN member

countries. For example, BGI builds a "Huo Yan" laboratory for Brunei to carry

out nucleic acid tests; China-ASEAN Information Harbor becomes Indonesia's

smart city solution partner. Both exemplify the profound and extensive

collaboration on science and technology between China and ASEAN.

As of May 2022, Guangxi has organized more than 140 science and technology

innovation and technology transfer activities for ASEAN at home and abroad,

nearly one-third of which were held in ASEAN nations, covering more than 7,800

projects, serving over 9,900 enterprises, and helping enter into 653

cooperation agreements, which has promoted the application of modern

agriculture and other advanced and applicable technology achievements in the

member states of ASEAN.

Source: Department of Science and Technology of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

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   Caption: Numerous achievements of scientific and technological collaboration between

Guangxi province and ASEAN members are showcased at the 10th Forum on

China-ASEAN Technology Transfer and Collaborative Innovation.