The 2019 Seminar on China-ASEAN (BIMP-EAGA) Cross-border E-commerce kicks off in Nanning, Guangxi on Nov 12. [Photo by Wei Tiancong/chinanews.com]

The 2019 Seminar on China-ASEAN (BIMP-EAGA) Cross-border E-commerce opened in Nanning, capital city of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Nov 12, with a number of officials from ASEAN countries taking part in it.

Sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce and undertaken by the Secretariat of the China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO), the 14-day seminar focuses on topics like bilateral and multilateral economic and trade cooperation, cross-border e-commerce development, as well as how to combine physical exhibitions with e-commerce.

Participants will have classes given by well-known experts, scholars, and government officials in China's e-commerce field, enjoy on-site lectures at the Nanning cross-border e-business park construction project, as well as visit Liuzhou, Guangxi and Shijiazhuang and Langfang in Hebei province to intuitively learn from successful cases of cross-border e-commerce, such as how Liuzhou snail powder is exported overseas through e-commerce and how Hebei achieved its poverty reduction goal through rural e-commerce development.

Zeng Zhong, deputy secretary-general of the Secretariat of CAEXPO, noted that the seminar will play a positive role in further deepening bilateral economic and trade cooperation as cross-border e-commerce is a new growth point for the two sides.

CAEXPO has been held 16 times and has established an effective public platform for cooperation between China and ASEAN countries. The secretariat of CAEXPO has conducted cross-border e-commerce seminars for the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East-Asian Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) for three consecutive years.