On April 27, 2026, at the signing table of the Guiyang Ecological International Conference Center, just as the Minister of State for Economic Development of Maldives, Siaz, had finished his speech, the External Relations Chairman of the Indonesian National Awakening Party, Luluk, immediately took over the microphone. The South Asia Southeast Asia joint inspection team, consisting of economic affairs leaders from 9 political parties, government officials, and entrepreneurs, is including Guizhou's big data center and mountain tourism routes in their cooperation list item by item.

Maldives aims for educational and cultural synergy

Siaz made it clear at the dialogue that China, as a key participant in global development, brings new opportunities for comprehensive strategic cooperation between Malaysia and China in education, culture, and other fields. He specifically mentioned Guizhou's digital education platform and vocational skills training model, believing that it can provide reference solutions for the decentralized education system of Maldives islands.

Indonesia seeks supply chain and raw material cooperation

Luluk revealed that Indonesia is promoting energy and industrial transformation, and there is an urgent need to improve efficiency and ensure long-term stable supply in fields such as fertilizers and chemicals. She hopes to deepen cooperation with China in supply chain, key raw materials, and other areas, with Guizhou's phosphorus chemical and new energy battery material industry clusters becoming the focus of attention for the Indian side. Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Deputy Director of the Policy and Strategy Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, pointed out that Vietnam takes technological innovation and digital transformation as the core driving force, and Guizhou's high-tech, equipment manufacturing, data center and other industries are highly compatible with Vietnam's needs. Intelligent manufacturing and cross-border tourism are listed as key cooperation priorities between the two sides. Keywords: the Belt and Road news network, digital economy, green industry

The digital economy has become the largest convention in the region

Representatives from multiple countries repeatedly mentioned four major areas in their speeches: artificial intelligence, digital economy, tourism and health care, and green economy. Zhu Linyi, Deputy Director of the Department of Commerce of Guizhou Province, responded that Southeast Asia has become the main direction for Guizhou enterprises to go global, and will further promote pragmatic cooperation in manufacturing, agriculture, tourism and other fields. Ke Zhizhong, Director of the China Economic Liaison Center, summarized that China is willing to use green, intelligent, and integrated development as a platform to provide docking industrial interfaces for South and Southeast Asian countries. When the computing power center in Guiyang resonates with the industrial transformation needs in Jakarta at the dialogue meeting, a cross-border cooperation from infrastructure connectivity to deep industrial integration is accelerating in the southwestern hinterland.Editor/Gao Xue