Events to be held to push auto industry in line with Thailand 4.0

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Events to be held to push auto industry in line with Thailand 4.0

BANGKOK, 3 June 2016 (NNT) – The Thailand Automotive Institute is cooperating with other agencies to organize the Manufacturing Expo 2016 and the Automotive Summit 2016 late this month in a bid to showcase new innovations in support of the Thailand 4.0 strategy.

President of the Thailand Automotive Institute Vichai Jirathiyut said the country’s electric vehicle industry has a tendency to grow steadily as it is benefitting from technological changes, adding that it will also be a boon to other related industries, such as motor engines, batteries and electronic parts.

With an aim of promoting electric vehicles and pushing for an innovative economy in accordance with the Thailand 4.0 policy, the Thailand Automotive Institute is prepared to organize the Manufacturing Expo 2016 and the Automotive Summit 2016 in collaboration with other private agencies from June 22-25 at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Center (BITEC), Bang Na.

The two events will focus on industries pertaining to manufacturing as well as supporting industries, including those categorized by the government as super clusters. There will be seminars on the development of electric vehicle technology and the government’s First S-Curve economic development policy. Moreover, Thai and foreign entrepreneurs will be able to partake in business matching sessions.

The events are expected to welcome more than 76,000 visitors and generate no less than 5 billion baht for the country.


-- NNT 2016-06-03

[Winniedapu]

Thailand will not embrace an innovative economy., The best they will manage is to sell the concessions to overseas industry, in retutn for a slice of the action kicking back to you-know-where, while TL: continues to hope that foreign companies value it's unskilled and uneducated workforce.

I see nothing in this policy which is likely to reverse Thailand's decline. Maybe it will slow it down a bit. Maybe.

But I doubt it.

W

[Redline]

Unfortunately, education comes before innovation