Xiamen has been stepping up efforts to tap into the potential of professionals in the BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa through exchange and training programs.
The Xiamen government recently issued a work plan consisting of 38 major tasks to speed up digital governance, the digital economy and digital society construction in the city this year.
The BRICS Political Parties, Think Tanks and Civil Society Organizations Forum opened here today via video link.
On May 21, the Xiamen Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park hosted an e-commerce livestreaming event featuring selected products from the BRICS countries, which attracted over 250,000 viewers online.
President Xi Jinping has called on the BRICS countries to inject stability and positivity into international relations in a period of turbulence and transformation.
Foreign legal representatives as well as those from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in Xiamen have been able to download electronic business licenses starting May 10.
Statistics showed that the import and export volume of Xiamen in Fujian province increased 5.9 percent year-on-year to 275.53 billion yuan ($40.54 billion) in the first four months of this year.
