China News Service, Nanning, September 5 (Zhang Guangquan) The 2026 Guangxi Artificial Intelligence Cross-border Application Innovation Cooperation Academic Exchange Conference was held in Nanning on the 4th.
This exchange meeting was hosted by Qingxiu Innovation Center and hosted by Guangxi Shuimu Shenyan Advanced Technology Integration Innovation Promotion Center Co., Ltd., with the theme of "Linking ASEAN and Creating a Smart Future". More than 100 Chinese and foreign experts and scholars in the field of artificial intelligence, scholars from ASEAN countries, business representatives and heads of cooperative institutions conducted in-depth exchanges around the cross-border application of AI technology and reached a number of pragmatic cooperation consensuses.
As a frontier hub for China's opening up and cooperation with ASEAN, Guangxi is accelerating the construction of a cross-border digital industry ecosystem of "Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou R&D + Guangxi integration + ASEAN application". This exchange meeting closely follows the needs of the industry and has four major sections: keynote speech, roundtable dialogue, achievement display, and precise docking.
During the keynote speech session, many industry experts shared cutting-edge perspectives. Jiang Ming, senior advisor to the China-ASEAN Expo and president of the Guangxi Artificial Intelligence Education Society, analyzed the three major windows of opportunity and three core challenges for AI cross-border cooperation, and put forward feasible paths and strategic suggestions for ASEAN; Sun Lixian, a second-level professor at Guilin University of Electronic Science and Technology, shared the cutting-edge results of artificial intelligence in assisting the research and development of new energy smart materials and sensors; Ding Xianfeng, a senior expert in the field of perception and cognition, explained in detail the application of embodied intelligence in edge computing and cross-border scenarios in the era of robots.
During the roundtable dialogue session, Gao Zhendong, secretary-general of the Peking University Vietnam Alumni Association, Thai researcher Tai Lulu, Vietnamese Ph.D. Nguyen Phuong Cui and other guests agreed that ASEAN’s digital transformation needs are urgent, but data security, localization adaptation, and differences in policies and regulations are still realistic thresholds, which need to be solved with a systematic solution of “technology export + local operation + compliance escort”.
During the same period of the conference, an achievement exhibition area was set up to focus on displaying artificial intelligence applications and implementation cases for ASEAN. Products such as smart education, smart transportation, and cross-border data security attracted participants to stop and communicate. In the afternoon of the same day, the participating representatives went to Runjian Co., Ltd. for on-site exchanges and docking, and experienced on-site AI translation of small languages for ASEAN, cross-border data security and other scenarios, and intuitively felt the pragmatic capabilities of Guangxi's AI technology.
The biggest highlight of this event is the AI cross-border scenario docking exchange meeting. The conference broke the traditional one-way output model and adopted a three-dimensional process of "policy presentation + group discussion + precise matching". At the scene docking site, ASEAN's overseas service system, cross-border support policies and the business facilitation measures of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) were interpreted. Subsequently, three country groups were set up: Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia. The leaders of each group took the lead and organized company representatives to appear in sequence, conduct in-depth discussions on targeted scenario topics, and answer questions in real time based on country implementation experience. After nearly two hours of precise docking, each group compiled three lists of docking results, problems and intentions, establishing a long-term tracking mechanism for subsequent cooperation, and truly realizing the substantive advancement from "handshake" to "hand in hand".
As a key science and technology park platform in Qingxiu District, Nanning City, Qingxiu Innovation Center continues to deepen China-ASEAN science and innovation collaboration. It has deployed overseas collaborative innovation centers in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Bangkok, Thailand. It has held more than 10 Chinese and foreign industry docking activities and introduced 6 overseas talents and 4 innovation teams.
This exchange meeting serves as a carrier for normal exchanges and cooperation in artificial intelligence between China and ASEAN. It not only demonstrates the cross-border innovation and development strength of artificial intelligence in Guangxi and Nanning, but also builds an efficient bridge for domestic AI companies to team up and go overseas, and for ASEAN to connect with China's advanced digital technology.
