Driving the Digital Economy - The 2021 Global Digital Trade Conference and Wuhan (Hankoubei) Commodities Fair thematic event "Digital Trade and Technology" held in Wuhan, Hubei
2021年10月15日 - 6:30AM
JCN Newswire
The 2021 Global Digital Trade Conference and Wuhan (Hankoubei)
Commodities Fair held the thematic event "Digital Trade and
Technology" in Wuhan, Hubei. More than 300 distinguished guests,
including leading experts and scholars in digital trade and
economy, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders attended the
conference. They shared new insights into digital trade and
technology under China's new "dual circulation" development
strategy and the future development of the global digital
economy.
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Conference area of the 2021
Global Digital Trade Conference and Wuhan (Hankoubei) Commodities
Fair thematic event "Digital Trade and Technology" |
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Speech by Jiang Wei, Standing
Committee member of the Wuhan Municipal Party Committee and Vice
Mayor of Wuhan |
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Panel Discussion: Industrial
Development Path in the Digital Economy era |
Powered by informatization, digitization, and intelligent
connectivity, the new technological revolution and industrial
transformation have brought about digital trade, which
significantly impacts the trading sector, fostering new business
models and trading patterns among counterparties. This has reshaped
the global industrial chain, supply chain, value chain, and
innovation chain, becoming a major driving force for economic
globalization. As one of the key highlights of the 2021 Global
Digital Trade Conference, the "Digital Trade and Technology" event
aims to become the leading platform that facilitates discussions,
exchanges, and conversations around global digital trade.
Jiang Wei, Standing Committee member of the Wuhan Municipal Party
Committee and Vice Mayor of Wuhan, delivered a speech. He shared
that Wuhan's geographic location and transportation advantages,
vibrant commercial hub, and quality modern logistics infrastructure
have laid the foundation to advance the development of Wuhan's
digital trade and economy. In recent years, the largest city in
Central China has introduced a series of policies to promote the
development of the digital economy and has achieved much success.
He welcomed the visitors to take advantage of the digital trade
development opportunities and invest in Wuhan for their new
businesses and technological innovation.
Internationally renowned experts, scholars, and entrepreneurs,
including Dr Finn E. Kydland, Norwegian economist and winner of the
2004 Nobel Prize in Economics; Yoshinori Ogawa, Executive Director
of Marubeni Corporation, and Managing Director for Marubeni China;
Wu Ying, Chairman of the Digital China Federation; Liang Rubo, CEO
of Bytedance; Jiang Guofei, Vice President of Ant Group and
president of advanced technology business group; Loh Boon Chye,
Vice Chairman of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and the
CEO of SGX; Tian Ning, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Panshi
Group delivered keynote addresses and shared new insights into the
development trends of the global digital economy, the integration
of digital trade and technology, and industrial supply chain
innovation and transformation.
Host organizer Qi Zhiping, CEO of ZALL Smart Commerce Group, also
joined four entrepreneurs - Qian Xiaojun, CEO of Beijing United
Information Technology, Mu Xiaohai, Vice President of JD Cloud
Business Group; Sun Wei, CEO of Shenzhen Sinoagri; and Huang
Jianwen, Chairman of pao400, during the panel discussion. They had
in-depth discussions around the development path and transformation
of traditional industries in the digital economy era.
iResearch Consulting, China's leading data research organization,
released a white paper on Global Digital Trade during the event. Li
Chao, a Chief Analyst at iResearch and Executive Dean of iResearch
Institute, presented their findings. The white paper shares the
current development of digital trade from the existing digital
infrastructure, policies, technologies, and capital. It also
analyzes in-depth how digital trade has redefined traditional trade
across production, transaction and supply chain.
The whitepaper also looked at five major industries in agriculture,
steel, plastics, wholesale and cross-border trade, along with the
development and business models of renowned Chinese and global
digital trading companies. It also analyzes the profound changes
digital technologies and supply chain services have brought to the
global trade industry, highlighting the growth momentum of digital
trading companies and their promising prospects by financial
markets. In addition, the paper believes that with continued
industry upgrading and business segmentation, there would be good
opportunities for digital trade services and ecosystem-based
platforms to create a new form of industrial supply-demand
relationship and ecological synergy.
Themed "Intelligent Connectivity . Global Trading", the 2021 Global
Digital Trade Conference is organised by the Hubei Provincial
People's Government; supported by the All-China Federation of
Industry and Commerce; co-organised by the Wuhan Municipal People's
Government and the Department of Commerce of Hubei Province; and
executed by the Wuhan Huangpi District Government, Wuhan Municipal
Bureau of Commerce, ZALL Smart Commerce Group and Hankoubei Group.
At the same time, the Wuhan (Hankoubei) Commodities Fair is
concurrently organized and would feature hundreds of procurement
fairs and thousands of livestreaming activities, pushing the global
industrial chain and supply chain towards digitalization and
intelligent connectivity, and promote the high-quality development
of global economy and trade.
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