DIGITAL ECONOMY & THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOP OF ASEAN & CHN

The global public health crisis of COVID-19 highlights the importance of digital technology. The digital economy is also booming during the pandemic, which has become one of the major driving forces of economic recovery. Given the vital importance of digital technology and the digital economy, this book provides an in-depth understanding of their implications for the sustainable development of ASEAN-China relations from various perspectives. In addition, authors also contribute their resourceful insights on the sustainable development of both China and ASEAN Member States (AMS) through the lens of eco-tourism, carbon neutrality, social inequality, and others.

This book provides a series of high-quality policy recommendations. Specific policy recommendations include: 1) China and ASEAN should launch a project to identify connectivity gaps and detail how this might evolve in future investment in digital and ICT (science, technology and innovation). 2) Efforts should be intensified in digital literacy programs, capacity building, and promotion of digital skills to build workforce capacity in the digital age. 3) As a pacesetter in the digital inclusion agenda in the healthcare sector, China can cooperate with other AMS on digital healthcare projects. 4) Action plans should increase collaborative manufacturing and develop mutual trust in supply chains. 5) China and ASEAN should align STI policies with industrial policies and cooperate in adopting frontier technologies while diversifying their production bases by mastering many existing technologies.6) ASEAN and China should continue facilitating e-commerce, including paperless customs clearance, electronic transaction documents, digital authentication, and electronic and online payments.

Contents:

• Digitalization and Industrial Transformation: Implications for China–ASEAN Digital Cooperation (Feng Xingyan)
• Advancing Regional Cooperation on Managing Digital Platforms: Implications and the Way Forward for ASEAN and China in the New Normal — A Case Study on Singapore (Tai Wei Lim and Bojian Liu)
• Fostering Sustainable Tourism in ASEAN and China: A Case Study in the Philippines (Eylla Laire M Gutierrez)
• Achieving Sustainable Development Goals by 2030: Reducing the Gap of Inequality through ASEAN–China Trade Relations (Yulida Nuraini Santoso and Tunggul Wicaksono)
• ASEAN–China Partnership on Sustainable Development: Vietnam's Perspectives (Chu Minh Thao)
• ASEAN–China Partnership on Pursuing Sustainable Development: A View from Singapore (Yu Hong)
• Coordinated Regulation on China–ASEAN Cross-Border E-Commerce on Medical Devices (Anyu Lee)
• ASEAN–China Partnership for Sustainable Development: Assessment of ASEAN–China Solutions toward Carbon Neutrality Goal (Bounphieng Pheuaphetlangsy)
• Offline and Online Perils of Digital Platforms with the Development of E-commerce in Laos (Bounphieng Pheuaphetlungsy)
• APPGM-SDG: Malaysia's Effort to Localize SDGS in Collaboration with Members of Parliament (Anthony Tan)
• Offline and Online Perils of Digital Platforms: A Case Study on Malaysia (Farlina Md Said)
• Vietnam's Perspective and Policies toward Promoting Sustainable Development of Digital Platform (Nguyen Dinh Sach)
• ASEAN–China Digital Economy Cooperation and Its Prospects (Cao Xiaoyang)

Readership: Academics, policymakers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in the digital economy and sustainable development in ASEAN and China.