Straits Herald · Recently, a salon with the theme of "Embracing the BRICS Era" - Development and Opportunities under the Community of Shared Future was successfully held in Fujian Xiamen Airlines Ancient Stone Fund Town. Based on how Xiamen can give full play to the advantages of the Special Economic Zone, make good use of the BRICS New Industrial Revolution Partnership Innovation Base to develop the economy, and contribute to the overall development of the country, experts at home and abroad launched a two-hour brainstorming.
Einar Tangen, Senior Researcher of Taihe Think Tank and Chief Vice President of Structured Finance of Milwaukee Investment Bank, Qian Feng, Senior Researcher of Taihe Think Tank and Researcher of the Institute of National Strategy of Tsinghua University, He Junming, Professor of the School of Marxism of Xiamen University of Technology, Lai Yongxuan, Professor of the School of Information of Xiamen University, Xiang Teng, Deputy General Manager of GM BRICS (Xiamen) Investment and Development Co., Ltd., and other representatives discussed from different perspectives and provided positive and useful thinking.
The event was presided over by Hu Wei, director of the Xiamen Reporter Station of Hong Kong Commercial Daily, Shi Qianping, Executive Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of Huli District, Fu Fanghuai, Director of the Data Bureau of Huli District, Cai Xiaodan, Section Chief of the Science and Technology and Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Huli District, Li Mingyi, Chairman of Xiamen Aviation Development Real Estate Co., Ltd., Chen Yujin, Director of the Huli District Financial Media Center, and nearly 50 people from the central and provincial media, business circles, and academia attended the event.
The event was co-organized by the Propaganda Department of the Huli District Committee of Xiamen City and the Xiamen Reporter Station of Hong Kong Commercial Daily, and co-organized by the Office of the Leading Group for the Construction of the BRICS Innovation Base in Xiamen, the Science and Technology and Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Huli District, Xiamen Huli District Data Management Bureau, and the Financial Media Center of Huli District, Xiamen, and was supported by Taihe Think Tank and Aviation Gudishi Square.
【Viewpoint】
Einar • Tangen:建设开放的金砖支付系统
The main guest of the event, Einar Tangen, senior researcher at Taihe Think Tank and chief vice president of structured finance at Milwaukee Investment Bank, shared his views through a video: United States debt accounts for 34% of the world's debt, maintaining a long-term trade deficit, exporting dollars and causing inflation. United States's huge debt is the epitome of United States hegemony.
According to him, the BRICS payment system was initiated by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In contrast to the unipolar SWIFT system, which is controlled by the United States, the BRICS payment system, which is multipolar and open. BRICS+ and the BRICS payment system are an ever-expanding economic platform that represents the voices of many developing countries around the world.
Qian Feng: Continue to expand multi-level and three-dimensional exchanges
Qian Feng, a senior researcher at Taihe Think Tank and a researcher at the Institute of National Strategy at Tsinghua University, shared his views online, saying that after the expansion, the proportion of the population, land area and economic aggregate of the BRICS countries will also increase to 46.1%, 36.1% and 36.29%, surpassing the G7. The growing voice of the BRICS countries in the international community has attracted the interest of more and more countries.
Qian Feng believes that the development of BRICS countries should not only continue to consolidate the mechanisms of leaders' summits, ministerial meetings, and technical expert meetings at the official level, but also expand people-to-people exchanges, and strengthen understanding among the people of BRICS countries by holding activities such as the Young Scientists Forum, the Roundtable on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, and the New Venture Forum, so as to better form an all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging cooperation framework.
He also said: "It is recommended to make good use of the BRICS New Development Bank to provide financing support and arrangements for infrastructure construction and green development of BRICS countries, and at the same time, it is also necessary to strengthen coordination and consultation, and promote the reform of quotas, including the IMF and the World Bank, to form a greater synergy." ”
He Junming: Strengthen regional and country studies to escort investment
He Junming, a professor at the School of Marxism at Xiamen University of Technology, put forward his own point of view, he believes that when we are now docking with foreign countries, the national conditions of other countries, the tax system, including some customs and habits, and soft things in society may not be very well understood, which often brings some risks, so in this regard, we still need to strengthen the study of regional countries, including our enterprises going out, and strengthen the understanding and communication of the markets of other countries.
He believes that the platform of the BRICS Innovation Base is a good platform for foreign exchanges. He suggested that the model of "two countries and two parks" between Fujian and the "Belt and Road" countries could be emulated, and a "two countries and two parks" with the BRICS countries could be built in Xiamen to reduce the risk of foreign investment.
He Junming said that at present, enterprises going out are not only facing pressure from the international environment, but also the problem of policy changes in other developing countries. He suggested that enterprises should focus on "light assets" in the early stage of going out, and at the same time make good use of the concept of BRICS and "BRICS+", connect countries in the Global South, and provide information and security for enterprises going out is a very important development direction.
Talking about the current construction of the BRICS digital block in Huli District, Professor He said: "From the perspective of the development of the whole city, under the changes in the international environment, Xiamen's export-oriented economy may have to make some adjustments from the original development model. From the perspective of Huli District, the BRICS digital block still falls on the cultivation of scientific and technological innovation and new quality productivity. Huli District has a very good foundation, and some of the original old industrial land and reuse land are very important development advantages of Huli District. In the future, after the completion of Xiang'an Airport, the airport land can also be effectively utilized, and we originally had semiconductor IC design parks on both sides of the strait, etc., which are a foundation for our future science and technology, especially disruptive technologies, and these scientific and technological innovations must have an open, international, inclusive and diverse environment.
Lai Yongxuan: Digital transformation serves the development of BRICS countries
Lai Yongxuan, a professor at the School of Information Science and Technology of Xiamen University, said that in the process of digital transformation, there is also the problem of return on investment. How to let everyone have a consensus and invest together. It's not just a monetary reward, it's an uplift between civilizations.
He pointed out that the rapid progress of artificial intelligence and other technologies has objectively accelerated technological inequality between countries. However, the BRICS Innovation Base offers a possibility to promote technology transfer and achievement transformation through the establishment of a cooperation platform, promote the exchange and cooperation of global AI research resources, and promote the balanced development of countries in the development and use of information and intelligent technologies. He believes that AI has great potential and will bring more benefits to human society. In this regard, we still need to remain optimistic and actively embrace this change.
Lai Yongxuan said that while helping the development of BRICS countries, we should start from the scenario, build this scene well in China, and then promote it to other countries, so that the probability of success is relatively high, which is also in line with the suggestion of "asset-light going out". Because the replication cost of information technology is relatively low, many times even zero, and it is easy to achieve the "Chinese experience" to serve other countries, of course, our service is not one-way, if there are better technical and data resources in other places, we can also make good use of it.
Xiang Teng: Make every effort to build the headquarters area of the BRICS Innovation Base
The BRICS Innovation Base Headquarters Project is located in the Wutong Business Core District, Huli District, Xiamen City, and started construction at the beginning of this year. Xiang Teng, deputy general manager of GM BRICS (Xiamen) Investment and Development Co., Ltd., the person in charge of the project, said that the headquarters area will build an industrial complex integrating industrial offices, R&D offices, conference centers, hotels, supporting apartments and other multi-functional formats; In the future, we will give full play to the advantages of industrial resources of General Technology Group, cooperate with the BRICS Science and Technology Industry Innovation Fund and the BRICS Industry Innovation Alliance led by General Technology Group, and introduce leading enterprises in the fields of digital economy, AI big data and future strategic emerging industries at home and abroad to settle in the base.
He pointed out that Xiamen, as the strategic fulcrum city of the "Belt and Road", the core of the cross-strait urban agglomeration and the hometown of famous overseas Chinese, will gather more resources after the expansion of the BRICS. The successful implementation of the BRICS Innovation Base Headquarters Project can provide more successful examples for emerging market countries and developing countries to carry out innovation cooperation.
Referring to talent training and industrial incubation, Xiang Teng said that the General Industry Science and Technology Innovation Fund has been clearly defined and will focus on high-tech, including biomedicine, new energy and new materials, etc., to help the development of high-tech industries in Xiamen.
【Conversation】
Join forces to go to sea and go up the "chain".
The interactive session was brainstorming, and the guests raised targeted questions, and the guests' answers were even more wonderful.
The surging news reporter Han Yuting proposed that when all our enterprises go out, they mainly take the lead in the large infrastructure of state-owned enterprises, but as a private enterprise, the risk is actually greater, and how should the opportunity of "going out" be spread?
Professor He Junming replied: the current situation of the BRICS countries, there is still a lack of large-scale industrial parks, enterprises should consider the local demand level to go out, it is not recommended that small and medium-sized enterprises blindly go out, if they can cooperate with other countries in the local planning of mature industrial parks will be conducive to the development of the market and industrial chain.
Source: Strait Herald