Second Senior Meeting for APEC TELMIN5 Opens in Shanghai

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Second Senior Meeting for APEC TELMIN5 Opens in Shanghai

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Prior to the fifth Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting on Telecommunications and Information Industry (TELMIN5) to debut on May 29, the second Senior Officials Meeting (SOM2) of APEC TELMIN5was held here Monday.

Liu Cai, SOM2 chairman, opened the two-day meeting, during which senior officials with 21 APEC economies will discuss the meeting schedule and draft documents for the APEC TELMIN5.

At the Monday session, participants discussed and made some minor alterations to the Shanghai Declaration and Program of Actions, which will be submitted to the APEC TELMIN5.

The First Senior Officials Meeting was held on March 15 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

According to the organizer, the two-day APEC TELMIN5 will have the theme "Leveraging Digital Opportunities to Promote Common Development".

Ministers, delegates, experts and entrepreneurs from 21 APEC economies will hold discussions on narrowing the digital divide, infrastructure development, policy-making and marketing, and humanresources development.

The meeting will also discuss and pass the Shanghai Declarationand Program of Action, to draw up strategies for the Asia-Pacific region on telecommunications and information development.

So far, some ministerial-level participants of delegations with21 APEC economies have arrived here. The Chinese delegation with over 50 members, headed by Wu Jichuan, minister of Information Industry, has also arrived.

TELMIN5 has drawn wide-ranging attention from all APEC economies, as more than 160 reporters from home and overseas applied to cover the meeting.

The previous four APEC TELMIN meetings have established a framework on policies and technological problems concerning information industry development in the Asia-Pacific region, including establishing the Asia-Pacific Information Society (APIS)and Asia-Pacific Information Infrastructure (APII).

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