Event | The Seminar on New Opportunities for Going Global Under the China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone 3.0 Negotiations Successfully Held

On July 23, the "Seminar on New Opportunities for Going Global Under the China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone 3.0 Negotiations" was successfully held at the Global Service Center. As the negotiation of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 (CAFTA 3.0) has been fully concluded and regional economic and trade cooperation is about to enter a new phase, the Global Service Center proactively planned ahead and precisely invited leading professional service providers from key sectors to attend.

The District Bureau of Commerce, the Global Service Center, HiredChina, and over 30 enterprises and service providers with outbound expansion needs gathered together. Focusing on the trend of global industrial chain restructuring, they deeply discussed opportunities in emerging fields such as digital economy and green economy, jointly planning new pathways for going global under the context of CAFTA upgrading.

PART.1

Direct Address to Enterprise Pain Points:

Expecting CAFTA 3.0 to Drive Breakthroughs

Outbound enterprise representatives shared their practical challenges in expanding into the rapidly growing ASEAN market under traditional frameworks (our city's import and export trade with ASEAN reached 751.5 billion yuan in 2024, up 22.3% year-on-year), which highlighted a shared expectation for the empowering role of CAFTA 3.0:

How to adapt to higher environmental and labor compliance standards under CAFTA 3.0, especially addressing potential green barriers from Europe and the U.S., and effectively recruiting high-quality talent with local experience? After project implementation, how to efficiently navigate complex and diverse compliance systems across countries—such as cross-border data flows, green standards, and foreign exchange finance—and conduct more comprehensive risk assessments and contingency planning in advance? How can enterprises leverage CAFTA 3.0’s digital trade rules to lower market entry barriers and effectively establish communication channels with governments and institutions across ASEAN countries to promptly access policy information and resources?

PART.2

Service Providers Deliver Precise Responses:

Providing Solutions Tailored to Three Key Areas

In response to these urgent questions from the front lines, representatives from major service providers leveraged their professional strengths, closely aligned with the new opportunities brought by CAFTA 3.0, and shared cutting-edge insights on helping enterprises seize the upgrading dividends—from data empowerment, compliance upon landing, talent recruitment, outbound risk management, telecom operations, credit insurance, and beyond.

PART.3

Global Service Center:

Continuously Building Bridges and Providing Support to Empower Enterprises to Go Global Together

As the construction of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone 3.0 (CAFTA 3.0) advances deeper, the Global Service Center will continue to leverage its platform advantages, deepen service content, and help enterprises seize the opportunities brought by regional integration upgrading, driving a transition from "single-point breakthroughs" to "ecological win-win".

This seminar, as another practical initiative by the Nanshan District Global Service Center to support enterprise internationalization, successfully created a supply-demand matching window between outbound enterprises and professional service providers, enabling an in-depth exploration of new opportunities for Chinese enterprises going global into ASEAN under CAFTA 3.0.

Looking ahead, HiredChina will continue to intensify efforts and play a greater role, contributing more to the overseas expansion of Chinese enterprises.