​Create peace and growth in the world

The plenary session "Leading the Asian Renascence" took place under the chairmanship of Mr. Roger King - Founder and Chairman, ODS Holdings Inc., Hong Kong.

Attending were Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee (PPC); Mr. Mai Hung Dung - Member of the Provincial Standing Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the PPC and leaders of the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), departments, committees, branches and agencies of Binh Duong province and enterprises.

Leaders of Binh Duong province attend the plenary session "Leading The Asian Renascence"

Speakers focused on discussing Asia's vision, role and direction of cooperation in the context of complex changes in the world situation. Especially when Asia, home to 60% of the global population, including ASEAN, the world's fifth largest economy, has recently continuously grown at a stable pace.

Discussing at the meeting, speakers said that Asia plays a more important role in creating and strengthening the world's peaceful and prosperous environment in the world context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, US-China competition, world security situation, climate change and inflation.

Speakers also discussed Asia's cooperation orientation in handling global issues in a multipolar world, focusing on a number of areas such as: Economic recovery and development, green transformation, climate change, narrowing the development gap and social inequality, the "Belt and Road" initiative of China; global governance of technology (especially artificial intelligence AI), etc.

Speakers discuss at the Plenary session "Leading The Asian Renascence"

According to the speakers, the presence of AI and ChatGPT with outstanding smart features makes many people worried about their position and role in the era of explosive AI. AI is a science that is having a profound impact on society and reshaping it. Mr. Mai An - Co-founder and Chairman of IMT Solutions, Viet Nam, said that although AI's creativity is not equal to that of humans, it does support enterprises in a number of tasks related to writing, calculation, and synthesis, etc. Therefore, the power of AI and the ChatGPT tool will certainly affect industry trends and the labor market when the number of jobs related to the above activities decreases. The problem is that people know how to take advantage of the advantages of AI, adjust to suit reality and know how to proactively exploit information and control so as not to be dependent or become "slaves" of AI that is growing stronger and stronger today.

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Mr. Roger King - Founder and Chairman of ODS Holdings Inc., Hong Kong speaks at the Plenary session "Leading The Asian Renascence"

Mr. Roger King - Founder and Chairman of ODS Holdings Inc., Hong Kong emphasized that the past is behind but the future is ahead, to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex world, Asian countries need to cooperate more closely and effectively for rapid, inclusive and sustainable development; promote well new growth drivers, such as digital transformation, green transformation, innovation, must ensure the mutual relationship between economic growth, social justice and environmental protection.

Improve human resource quality and increase labor productivity in the ASEAN region

Dialogue session with the theme "ASEAN driving Asia Forward" by Mr. Seilesh Purswani - Chairman of Thai Martin Group, Thailand, and Mr. Bill Nguyen - Founder and CEO of ABS Institute, Viet Nam chaired the discussion focusing on opportunities, challenges and strategies that ASEAN countries need to focus on implementing to continue developing in the current difficult global economic context.

 

Overview of the Dialogue session "ASEAN driving Asia Forward"

Delegates assessed that Asia in general and Southeast Asia in particular are increasingly developing strongly economically, continuing to make significant contributions to the global economy. From traditional economic sectors, the region has been making strong transitions to high-tech industries such as semiconductor chip technology, AI technology, robotics, etc. to move towards green growth. Three main factors that make ASEAN a promising region for investment are political stability, open markets, and abundant human resources. However, the challenge the ASEAN region is facing today is the Government's policy mechanism, uneven development among countries, middle income trap, financial and technological capacity of enterprises and human resources do not meet development requirements, etc.

 

Delegates discuss at the Dialogue session "ASEAN driving Asia Forward"

Delegates said that to promote the development of the ASEAN region, countries must take advantage of the potential and advantages associated with making appropriate policies and effectively utilize capital and technology from outside sources. Improving the quality of human resources, promoting regional connectivity, developing science and technology, innovation and digital transformation are also important solutions for the ASEAN region in the development process.

Mr. Bill Nguyen - Founder and CEO of ABS Institute said that for any country to develop and achieve success, training and improving the quality of human resources plays a decisive role. According to him, high-quality human resources are the key to improving labor productivity and competitiveness of the region, creating an important driving force for rapid and sustainable growth. Over the past time, ASEAN has paid great attention to this issue and has had many specific activities and initiatives to overcome the above challenges. The region has built an ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework, creating higher education spaces for students from ASEAN countries to exchange with each other, promote the role of the private economic sector in development in general and high human resource development in particular.

 

Solutions to improve labor productivity in the ASEAN region are focused on discussion at the Dialogue session

Along with education to improve the quality of human resources, governments of countries and local authorities need to conduct policy dialogue activities and share experiences on increasing labor productivity. Regularly exchanging and dialoguing with the enterprise community, investors, and workers about requirements and barriers to improving labor productivity and recommending appropriate solutions. Developing a communication program to disseminate knowledge about productivity, productivity improvement, and typical experiences in productivity improvement at the national, local, enterprise, and community levels. For enterprises, Mr. Seilesh Purswani - Chairman of Thai Martin Group, Thailand said that enterprises need to have policies to attract, train and retain workers so that they can feel secure in contributing to the success of the enterprise.

Delegates attending the Dialogue session also shared more experiences in improving labor productivity, overcoming the middle-income trap, policies to promote investment, and solutions to promote production and business growth in the context of global economic difficulties, etc.

 

Delegates attending the Dialogue session "ASEAN driving Asia Forward" take a souvenir photo