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Chinese president stops over in Guangxi on Asean tech and ethnic unity mission
- Xi Jinping inspects a regional technology project and a multi-ethnic community in Nanning on way back from Hanoi
- Stopover meant to foster urgency among officials, researcher says
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Returning from Vietnam, China’s president used a stopover in southern China to assess progress on IT links with Asean countries and call for more efforts to strengthen ethnic unity.
Xi Jinping highlighted the two priorities during a two-day inspection tour of Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, starting on Thursday morning.
In a meeting on Friday with leading Guangxi officials, Xi urged them to build the region into an important strategic hinterland of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area.
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He urged them to help build a China-Asean community with a shared future, deepen and expand cooperation with Asean countries in commerce, labour, industry, science and technology and education.
Xi, who is also China’s top military commander, met senior People’s Liberation Army officials stationed in Nanning on Friday morning.
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A day earlier, Xi visited the China-Asean Information Harbour in the city to inspect digitisation developments in economic and trade cooperation between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), state news agency Xinhua reported.
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