Members, partners urged to flex tech muscles

BRICS countries should work together to seize the opportunities delivered by new rounds of industrialization featuring the latest technologies such as artificial intelligence, in order to improve the resilience of their economies, according to an official of a BRICS institution.

Huang Feng, executive deputy director of the Office of the Xiamen Leading Group for the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution Innovation Center, also known as BRICS PartNIR Innovation Center or BPIC, said that BRICS should respond to global economic uncertainty by vigorously promoting collaboration on technological innovation and its commercialization.

Emerging and strategic sectors such as telecommunications, digital services and renewable energy are important areas in which BRICS countries can work together, Huang said. They could cooperate to develop projects on intelligent manufacturing, the industrial internet, industrial design and green industries, he said.