Online Desk: 2024 Reporting of the new international land-sea Trade corridor in the eyes of China” delegation visited the China-ASEAN Information Harbor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as CAIH) in Nanning, Guangxi on June 6 to learn about China and ASEAN countries to accelerate the construction of the “Digital Silk Road” and enhance digital connectivity.

“The China-ASEAN digital economy has great potential for development.” Zhang Tingting, deputy general manager of CAIH Co., Ltd., introduced the idea on the same day that CAIH recently promoted digital infrastructure construction. It has built 12 international land optical cables, three dedicated Internet data channels, one national domain name CN top-level node, 1 Nanning Regional Communications Service International Import and Export Bureau, Nanning national Internet backbone direct link point, Lancang-Mekong cloud Computing Innovation Center, and China- ASEAN Industrial Internet identity analysis node, which has enhanced the level of digital connectivity between China and ASEAN. The company has set up Indonesian and Malaysian companies overseas and launched nearly 20 digital government and digital enterprise projects in Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and other ASEAN countries.

CAIH established the ASEAN-oriented financial infrastructure platform to provide secure and efficient market-oriented credit investigation services for cross-regional exchanges and cooperation between domestic and foreign governments, banks, and enterprises through cross-border credit investigation cooperation and industrial data integration under the bilateral legal framework. On August 7, 2024, the launching ceremony of the Lao Enterprise Credit Information Platform was held simultaneously in Vientiane, Laos, and Nanning, China. The joint construction of the Lao Enterprise Credit Information Platform with the Lao government is the first overseas market verification of the credit information service model with Chinese characteristics and explores a path for the replication and promotion of the construction model of China’s social credit system.

It is learned that the Cloud Computing Innovation Center in Cambodia, built by CAIH, has been officially implemented, realizing the cloud transformation of existing telecommunications services in Cambodia and promoting the development of telecommunications and multimedia services between China and Cambodia. Du Bingyu, deputy editor-in-chief of Cambodia-Hua Daily, who participated in the interview, said the “digital Silk Road” has greatly benefited the Cambodian government and people. He looked forward to further cooperation between the two sides in electronic trade and Internet infrastructure construction so that information intelligence can benefit the lives of the public.

In recent years, Guangxi has made great efforts to develop the digital economy industry, build a high ground of opening up and cooperation on the “Digital Silk Road” for ASEAN, and continuously upgrade the service level of the five platforms of China-ASEAN Information Harbor infrastructure, information sharing, technical cooperation, economic and trade services, and people-to-people exchanges. As the first public service artificial intelligence computing infrastructure in Guangxi, the China-ASEAN Artificial Intelligence Computing Center has been officially put into use.