The 2nd Meeting of BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution (PartNIR) Advisory Group took place virtually on 28-29 April 2022. Chaired by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, the Meeting was attended by members from Ministry of Economy of Brazil, Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India and Ministry of Trade, Industry and Competition of South Africa.

The Meeting reviewed the progress achieved since the 1st Meeting of BRICS PartNIR Advisory Group in March, exchanged views on the arrangements and programmes of the BRICS Forum on Development of Industrial Internet and Digital Manufacturing as well as the 6th BRICS Industry Ministers Meeting, reached consensus on the outcome documents including the Updated Work Plan for BRICS PartNIR and BRICS Initiative for Cooperation on Digitalization of Manufacturing, and made progress on the negotiation of the Joint Declaration of the 6th BRICS Industry Ministers Meeting.

During the Meeting, Russia updated the progress in advancing the initiative of UNIDO-BRICS Center for Industrial Competences. The BRICS PartNIR Innovation Center briefed about its training programmes on Industrial Internet. BRICS members expressed their interests in participating the programmes and encouraged more activities of this kind for concrete outcomes.

(Source: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China)