Ministry of Commerce: using large data and cloud computing to strengthen port cooperation in Asia-Pacific

According to China's voice, "Yang News" reported that this morning, the Ministry of Commerce in the APEC National Conference Center held a press conference, the Ministry of Commerce International Secretary Zhang Shaogang summed up the results of the APEC Senior Officials meeting, and introduced from tomorrow, the two-day APEC dual ministerial Meeting of the main content.

The APEC senior officials meeting ended yesterday, starting tomorrow, will convene two days of APEC double ministerial Meeting, and Zhang Shaogang today said that the senior officials ' conference took stock of the achievements of APEC in the past year and put forward proposals for future development.

Senior officials will reach a consensus in the field of economic and trade mainly includes four aspects: first, the promotion of the Asia-Pacific FTA, the second is to promote the global value chain and supply chain; third, economic and technical cooperation, four is to study how the Asia-Pacific region to support the WTO and other multilateral mechanisms work.

In the area of the development of the Asia-Pacific FTA, the meeting of senior officials agreed to give full play to the role of APEC in promoting regional economic integration and to establish a road map to play this role, carry out a comprehensive strategic study of the Asia-Pacific FTA, and prepare for the launching of a series of capacity-building activities, particularly negotiations, in the Asia-Pacific trade Area.

There has been a number of pragmatic cooperation agreements in promoting global value chains and supply chains. Including the acceleration of supply chain capacity-building, customs cooperation and Cross-border E-commerce cooperation chain.

In the area of economic and technical cooperation, it approved and adopted the strategic plan of APEC's ability to promote trade and investment development, vigorously carried out targeted economic and technical cooperation, and promoted economic and technological cooperation with two wheels balanced and uniform rotation.

In support of the multilateral trading system, the senior officials ' meeting signalled a strong signal that it would push forward the Bali package, step up its Bali work, oppose protectionism in any situation and extend the deadline for implementation of this commitment from 2016 years to 2018 years.

The meeting will endorse and approve the results of the above series of official meetings, which, if approved, will be the guide to future APEC frameworks if they are approved by the leaders.

In addition, Zhang Shaogang also said at the meeting, China within the APEC framework to enhance the role. He noted that 60% of China's trade with other APEC members, and 83% of the foreign investment is also from APEC Member States, and 69% of the investments are also in the Asia-Pacific region, the economic tightness of which determines that China must play an active role within the APEC framework. While the Asia-Pacific region's economy is closely linked to a 67% per-zone trade, how to make the most of the situation is also a key issue.

"One of the important things is to strengthen the interconnection infrastructure," the secretary said. In addition, the use of large data, cloud computing, new scientific and technological means to strengthen the cooperation between ports in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, in the humanities, the issuance of three-year visa-free Asia-Pacific travel card for qualified businessmen to provide travel convenience, currently issued 150,000, China has 30,000. In addition, the Asia-Pacific investment Bank has been set up to provide financing facilities, promote the WTO implementation of the Bali package, and comprehensively promote the Doha round negotiations and so on.