APEC Seminar Calls for Turning Digital Gap Into Digital OpportunitiesFast-growing e-commerce should help turn the "digital gap" between the developed and the developing members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) into "digital opportunities" for common development, said some participants at an APEC high-level symposium.More than 50 officials, entrepreneurs and professionals from 20 members of the 21-member APEC delivered speeches at the two-day symposium on e-commerce and paperless trading, which closed in Beijing Saturday,February 10. Members of the APEC should establish a cooperative mechanism to solve issues concerning the development of e-commerce and paperless trading, said some of the participants of the symposium. Those issues involve law, network security, human resources development, infrastructure construction and protection of intellectual property rights. A new topic of APEC, the development of e-commerce and paperless trading should help increase trade between APEC members and broaden the sphere of cooperation, which is conducive to realizing the aim of liberalizing trade and investment and increasing technology and economic cooperation, said an official with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, which hosted the symposium. The symposium is the first of a series of APEC meetings to be held in China this year. |
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