2025 BRICS New Industrial Forum Opens in Xiamen

New-type industrialization, digital transformation, and green low-carbon development emerge as key highlights

On September 16, the 2025 BRICS Partnership Forum on New Industrial Revolution opened in Xiamen under the theme "Unlocking BRICS Cooperation Potential for Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization." Representatives from 34 countries and international organizations attended the forum, aiming to deepen cooperation among BRICS nations and partner countries in new-type industrialization, digital transformation, green and low-carbon development, and promote a more innovative and inclusive partnership.

Photo shows the centralized signing ceremony at the forum. (Photo by Chen Jing)

As an important measure to deepen BRICS cooperation, the forum inaugurated the "China Center for BRICS Industrial Capacity." Leveraging Xiamen's advantages in high-level opening-up, the center will fully utilize resource agglomeration effects from platforms such as the BRICS Science and Technology Innovation Incubator Park and the BRICS Innovation Base Digital Economy Research Center, effectively promoting deeper integration of innovation chains and industrial chains among BRICS countries. The forum also officially announced the expansion of the International Cooperation Initiative on New-type Industrialization to 19 national competent authorities, along with the release of an action plan. The center will advance green and low-carbon transitions, foster sustainable development, and support investment cooperation in areas including new-energy vehicles, photovoltaics, wind power, hydrogen energy, energy conservation, and environmental protection.

During the opening ceremony, 14 industrial cooperation projects were signed, including the launch of the Russia-China Digital Economy Research Center’s Innopraktika Innovation Center project, the Raflon filtration membrane new materials industrialization project, and the Longking Environmental Protection-Aluminum Corporation of Russia carbon desulfurization and dust removal project, alongside other achievement releases.