On September 23rd, the “Rich 70 Tsinghua Southeast Asia Cloud Forum: Investing in People Planet Prosperity for our Future of Shared Happiness” opened. Co-hosted by Tsinghua University and United in Diversity Foundation, the Cloud Forum aims to reminisce about the friendship between the two countries, celebrate the achievements of the two countries, and provide a platform for leaders from China, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian regions to learn from each other, in order to promote the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by China and the Southeast Asian countries, and to strengthen the development and cooperation of innovations between the two sides. At the opening ceremony, President Joko Widodo of Indonesia sent a congratulatory letter to the forum; President Qiu Yong of Tsinghua University and Tuti Hadiputranto, President of United in Diversity Foundation, delivered welcoming remarks; Ning Jizhe, Deputy Director General of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and Luhut Panjaitan, Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment Affairs, made opening speeches. Professor Bai Chong'en, Dean of School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, and Professor Edward F. Crawley, Provost of Tsinghua Center for Southeast Asia, delivered keynote speeches; UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Michelle Yeoh congratulated the Forum with a video message; and Yang Bin, Vice President, Provost of Tsinghua University, and Director of Institute for Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University (Tsinghua SDG Institute), hosted the Forum Opening Ceremony.
The forum includes nine sub-forums, namely “Policy Lab”, “Happy Digital Cities”, “Innovation Lab”, “Natural Resources”, “Carbon and Energy”, “Sustainable Development”, “Carbon and Community”, ‘Finance Lab’, ‘State-Owned Enterprises and Public Health’, ”Peace and Prosperity in China and Indonesia, each of which organizes a number of online high-end roundtables and invites a large number of politicians and businessmen from China, Indonesia, and other Southeast Asian countries, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Among them, the afternoon sub-forum on the 23rd - “China-Indonesia Peace and Prosperity” was co-hosted by Tsinghua SDG Institute and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). During the discussion, the guests agreed that we should change the mode of training the new generation of young people - from sending children to study in Western countries to attracting more overseas students to study in our own countries, encouraging the new generation of young people to be bold in expressing and presenting their own cultures to the world, and letting the world know more about Asian cultures, and emphasized that the new generation of young people should not forget their national roots while becoming global citizens.
Breakout sessions for all participants
Finally, a breakout session was set up to provide each participant with an opportunity to participate and speak in depth. Each participant shared their thoughts and suggestions on political, economic and cultural cooperation between China, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries, and the atmosphere of the discussion was very lively. This forum is an important witness to the beautiful friendship between China and Indonesia on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and it is a new chapter for the two countries to promote bilateral innovative development and cooperation, to join hands to build a community of human destiny, to realize the goal of sustainable development, and to build a better home for human beings in the future.
