Bloc to strengthen e-commerce to electrify growth

BRICS countries will deploy more resources and manpower to build a comprehensive e-commerce trading platform and intensify trade in services to stimulate business diversification and complementarity, a senior commerce official said on Sunday.

Vice-Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said the five BRICS members - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - have massive potential in e-commerce cooperation.

"Deepening technological progress and economic globalization presents to all countries unprecedented opportunities and an urgent necessity to enhance economic and technological cooperation," Wang said at a news conference during the BRICS Summit in Xiamen.