On 30 July 2017, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) paid a visit to the Modern Agricultural Demonstration Zone of Guizhou Province, and exchanged views with Mr. Xiong Ping, Director of the General Office of the Executive Committee of the Demonstration Zone. Ms. Cui Haining, Deputy Chief of the Division for Party-related Affairs of the Foreign Affairs Office (Overseas Chinese Affairs Office) of Guizhou Province and Mr. Zhang Xuehai, Deputy Director of Information and Public Relations Division of ACC accompanied the visit.

The Penglai Xianjie Agricultural Tourism Park is located in the Baiyun district of Guiyang city. With the demonstration of modern agriculture as its basic function, it also features ecological agriculture, recycling agriculture, sophisticated agriculture and tourism agriculture. The Modern Agriculture Demonstration Zone vividly demonstrates how Guizhou province develops agricultural E-Commerce. Guizhou fully harnesses its advantages in developing big data, through government guidance, enterprise leading and active participation of farmers so as to build the agricultural E-Commerce platform for the local specialties and build the agricultural E-Commerce centers. These measures have effectively promoted the local agricultural development and achieved sound economic and social profits.

Secretary-General Yang Xiuping spoke highly of the achievements of Guizhou in developing agricultural E-Commerce. She said that ASEAN and China are complementary in E-Commerce and have a large potential for cooperation. ACC would like to play a bridging role and actively support Guizhou in expanding cooperation with ASEAN countries in relevant areas, to achieve win-win results and benefit both peoples.