On December 11, 2024, during the founding conference of Guangxi Commercial Cryptography Association, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Digital Certificate Authentication Center (Guangxi CA), a subsidiary of China Quality Certification Centre (CQC) held the inauguration ceremony for the China-ASEAN Digital Certificate Authentication Center and the China-ASEAN Cryptographic Key Center. Officers from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Party Committee and relevant bureaus and departments attended the event. During the ceremony, Luo Guang, Deputy Director of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Cryptography Administration, and Liu Gang, Deputy Managing Director of CQC jointly inaugurated the China-ASEAN Digital Certificate Authentication Center and the China-ASEAN Cryptographic Key Center.

Liu Gang delivered a speech at the ceremony, he expressed his appreciation to all guests who attended the event and to the preparation team of the conference. He stated that since the establishment of Guangxi CA in 2003, it has always actively served the development of Guangxi and China-ASEAN. From 2009 to 2016, Guangxi CA responded to market demand by collaborating with financial institutions and issuing digital certificates across borders, solving the challenge on identity verification, and enabling electronic certification services to take root in ASEAN. In the past two decades, Guangxi CA has continuously constructed digital certificates system, strengthened network security defenses, and demonstrated the result of high-level opening-up to the world.

The establishment of the two centers will add a new engine for the digital economic cooperation between China and ASEAN and inject new impetus into Guangxi CA’s future development in the field of digital certification. Looking forward, Guangxi CA will take the establishment of the two centers as a starting point, under the leadership of CQC and the professional guidance from the national cryptography authorities, to improve various key systems, and uniformly manage various commercial cryptographic keys that comply with national standards. By deeply integrating into Guangxi’s overall strategy of opening-up and cooperation with ASEAN, Guangxi CA will fully inject powerful vitality into the cross-border digital economy and jointly build a bright future for China-ASEAN cross-border digital economy.