The week consisted of a series of events and activities including the meeting of the APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Working Group (SMEWG) on September 13-14 and workshops on APEC O2O Forum (September 10), seminar on Access to Finance for Small, Medium and Super-small Enterprises in the Digital Age, the Digital Economic Forum, and the Startup Forum.

Particularly, the APEC Start-up Forum, which attracted 300 participants from Vietnam and APEC economies, was the meeting of the leading starts-up in the region and contributed to arouse the spirit of starting a business in Vietnam.

The fourth APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Meeting is scheduled to take place in November 2017 in Da Nang City, with the participation of representatives from ABAC members and top business leaders in the region.

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