Secretary-General Yang Xiuping Visited Changchun Hongda Group

Source:ASEAN-China Centre

On 24 December2017, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC), visited Changchun Hongda High-Tech Group Co., LTD., and met with Chairman Wang Xin and Vice Chairman Zhang Lizhong. Ms. Wang Qifrom the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Jilin Province, and Mr. Zhang Xuhai, Deputy Director of the Information and Public Relations Division of ACC accompanied the visit.

Hongda Hi-tech Group, a hi-tech enterprise and a leading software company, possesses information technology and biometric identification technology. It has set up such subsidiaries as Changchun Hongda Information Science & Technology Co., Ltd., and Hongda Opto-electron Co., Ltd.  Hongda successfully developed China's first set of population information management system and the first suppliers of automated fingerprint identification system. Hongda is a formulator and drafter of the technical standards for the quality of fingerprint locks in China. With the largest production base of fingerprint products in China, Hongda is currently the only specialized manufacturer of fingerprint card locks with large-scale production capacity. China's first generation of population management software, the first identity card system, the information management system, public security management information system, household administration office system, social security management information system, endowment insurance management information system, traffic vehicle management systems are all the development results of Hongda Group.  Hongda Group has achieved remarkable results.

Hongda Group has actively expanded the international market and the products and services have been applied in more than 20 countries and regions in Europe and the United States, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. In August 2009, the company won the bid for the population and identity card management system project of Lao PDR. It marked the Company's population and identity card system goes to the international market. With a large population, ASEAN countries have a big demand for population and identity card management, which provides a broad market. The company looks forward to strengthening the contacts with ACC by means of the resources and platform of ACC to further understand the ASEAN market, develop more partners and expand the business in ASEAN countries.

Secretary-General Yang Xiuping briefed on the mandate and work of the ACC and commended the development achievements of Hongda Group. She said that as an inter-governmental organization co-founded by ASEAN Member States and China, ACC has always been committed to serving as a bridge and bond between the two sides and promoting two-way trade and investment cooperation. In recent years, ACC has hosted for several times in the ASEAN countries Trade and Investment Policy Promotion Conference, organized the Chinese Enterprises to the ASEAN Countries and other activities to strengthen exchanges and cooperation. The active participation of Hongda group will be warmly welcomed and ACC will continue to provide support and assistance to both ASEAN and Chinese enterprises.