General

New trends in international trade and the release of dividends from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), ASEAN has become a new blue ocean for international trade and investment for small, medium and micro enterprises. On September 4, the 2nd China Foreign Trade Cooperation and Development Forum was held at the National Convention Center, one of the venues of the 2022 Service Trade Fair. At the meeting, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and Shanghai Duochang Network Technology Co., Ltd. launched the "August 2022 Small and Medium Enterprise Export Trade (B2B) Index Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). Among all regions, the number of enterprises in the ASEAN region ranks first.

The "Report" shows that the interviewed companies that have already deployed in Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN account for 43.86%, 19.30% and 64.91% of the total number of interviewed companies respectively. The proportion of the interviewed enterprises was 36.84%, 36.84% and 78.95% respectively.

Wang Xiaohong, deputy director of the Information Department of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, pointed out at the 5th "Belt and Road" Service Trade Cooperation Forum on September 3 that there is a broad space for cooperation between my country and ASEAN in international trade. She said that digital technologies represented by software information technology, Beidou satellite positioning and location services, Baidu maps, search engines, blockchain technology, etc. are widely used in ASEAN and the "Belt and Road" international trade market, and are also the local digital infrastructure. and service played a very important role. At the same time, a large number of digital products and services, such as games, animation, film and television, design, digital media, etc., also have a broad market in ASEAN, and ASEAN has become a new blue ocean for international trade and investment of small, medium and micro enterprises.