Baku, Azerbaijan, June 13. A delegation from
the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria, led by Assoc. Prof.
Atanas Atanasov, PhD, President of the NSI, visited the
headquarters of the National Bureau of Statistics of China in
Beijing and met with Commissioner Kang Yi and heads of units in the
institution. Slav Karaslavov, Head of the Trade and Economic
Affairs Service at the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in
Beijing, also participated in the meeting, Trend reports.
The event was held in the context of the historical and
traditionally good diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and China
and aims to build on last year’s meeting between the Deputy
President of the NSI, Svilen Kolev, PhD, and the Deputy
Commissioner of the National Bureau of Statistics of China Ruan
Jianhong.
The President of the NSI and the Commissioner of the National
Bureau of Statistics of China presented the organization, work, and
development of the national statistical systems of the two
countries and expressed a mutual desire to establish deeper
bilateral cooperation.
The NSI delegation, consisting of Prof. Mihail Konchev, PhD,
Deputy President of the NSI, Milko Petsankov the Director of the
General Administration Directorate and Maria Gochova Head of
International Relations and Projects Department, is in Beijing at
the invitation of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in
Sofia to participate in a seminar on “Digitalization and
Establishing a New Model of Global Digital Cooperation” within the
framework of the Belt and Road Initiative.
The event was orchestrated by the China Center for Urban
Development in response to a directive from the Ministry of
Commerce of China. Throughout the seminar, attendees were immersed
in an exploration of China’s advancements in the realms of digital
transformation, automation technologies, artificial intelligence
integration, and cybersecurity frameworks, emphasizing the
intricacies of data governance.
The seminar agenda encompassed excursions to premier Chinese
enterprises within the domain of information and communication
technologies.
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