Chen Gang and Wei Tao meet with Liu Qiangdong.

According to the Guangxi Yunku client news, on September 20th, Chen Gang, Secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Party Committee and Director of the Autonomous Region People's Congress Standing Committee, and Wei Tao, Chairman of the Autonomous Region, met in Nanning with a delegation led by Liu Qiangdong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of JD.com and Chairman of the Strategic Execution Committee. The two sides had in-depth exchanges on deepening cooperation between government and enterprises, serving national strategies, and sharing the opportunities for Guangxi to open up to the ASEAN, reaching a series of cooperation consensus. Chen Gang and Wei Tao, on behalf of the Autonomous Region Party Committee and Government, expressed their gratitude to JD.com for their long-term support for the economic and social development of Guangxi. Chen Gang stated that Guangxi is deeply implementing the important requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping's work on Guangxi, liberating thinking, innovating and seeking change, towards the sea and open development. Seizing major opportunities such as the national implementation of the artificial intelligence talent building plan and the high-level joint construction of the Western Land and Sea New Passage, accelerating the construction of the development path of artificial intelligence with the integration of "research and development in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou + integration in Guangxi + application in ASEAN", highlighting "AI as the protagonist, with enterprises as the main body" to host the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo and Summit, continuously expanding internal and external opening, actively integrating into the unified national market, and serving the construction of a new development pattern. Cooperation between Guangxi and JD.com has both a solid foundation and broad prospects. It is hoped that JD.com will further leverage its platform, technology, and ecological advantages, increase its investment and layout in Guangxi, deepen cooperation in new retail, artificial intelligence, smart logistics, e-commerce, and other fields, jointly explore the ASEAN market, and achieve mutual benefit, win-win cooperation, and common development. Liu Qiangdong introduced the development of JD.com and its business development in Guangxi, expressing gratitude to the Autonomous Region Party Committee and Government for their strong support to JD.com. He stated that Guangxi is the forefront and window for China's opening and cooperation with ASEAN, with a good development trend and broad prospects, and he is full of confidence in investing in Guangxi. JD.com will continue to increase its investment and layout in Guangxi, pragmatically promote cooperation in areas such as new retail, liquor and travel delivery, smart logistics, and artificial intelligence, jointly cultivate new consumer scenarios and create brand activities, work together to explore the ASEAN market, and help promote the high-quality economic and social development of Guangxi. Autonomous Region leaders Lu Xinning, Zhou Yijue, and Zhong Dezhi also attended the meeting.