The Center integrates Hunan's leading industrial resources in engineering machinery, intelligent equipment, biomedicine, and other sectors, and collaborates with relevant industrial parks and industry associations to establish a regular exchange mechanism. Leveraging the advantages of the China (Changsha) ASEAN Economic and Trade Cooperation Headquarters Base, it connects with relevant industrial parks and enterprises in ASEAN countries through green channels and secure channels. The Center organizes "one-on-one" matchmaking meetings and overseas promotion events to facilitate technology implementation and market expansion, forming a closed-loop support system.

The center serves as a professional "industrial matchmaker," conducting precise analysis for industrial parks in ASEAN countries and Hunan. It creates dynamic profiles for enterprises from both sides, tagging them with core products/technologies, production capacity and demand, cooperation preferences (technology/market/capital), development stage, and past collaboration cases. Through end-to-end refined management, it significantly enhances the success rate of partnerships and promotes the targeted implementation of complementary industries between the two sides.

The center, as a professional industrial innovation platform, hosts specialized promotion conferences, industrial salons, and various meetings in both Hunan and ASEAN countries. Through these upgraded activities, it has evolved into a "business ecosystem operating system" that continuously creates value and builds lasting trust. It constructs a core business network for Hunan-ASEAN industrial cooperation, forming stable collaborative circles across different countries and industries. Through selective expansion, these circles steadily grow, achieving the strategic goal of progressing from "individual breakthroughs" to "collective advancement."

The Center serves as a pivotal platform for aggregating and publishing demand information, covering both ASEAN's procurement needs for Hunan's technologies, equipment, and services in infrastructure development and digital economy upgrading, as well as Hunan's market demand for ASEAN specialty agricultural products, minerals, components, and consumer brands. This enables precise two-way matching. Through four primary channels—China Customs and ASEAN countries' import-export data, commercial channel data, "hidden demands" collected via partnered chambers of commerce, industry associations, and the platform’s "information partners"—the platform provides entry points on its official website and member system, encouraging enterprises to independently submit or update their supply and demand information. This forms the foundational dataset for the Hunan-ASEAN Industrial Supply-Demand Matching Database.

The center mobilizes think tanks to conduct in-depth research on the industrial chain structures of both sides in fields such as advanced manufacturing (e.g., new energy vehicles, engineering machinery) and green technology (e.g., photovoltaics, energy storage, environmental protection technologies). It identifies segments where Hunan holds absolute advantages (e.g., R&D and final assembly of engineering machinery) and areas where ASEAN holds comparative advantages (e.g., resource endowment, labor markets, localized services), pinpointing "breakpoints" and "bottlenecks" in the supply chains. The center also solicits project proposals from enterprises on both sides for industrial chain collaboration, with a focus on initiatives that address weaknesses and enhance value chains. These projects are compiled into a "Key Industrial Chain Collaboration Project Pool," categorized into priority promotion projects and actively cultivated projects, all subject to dynamic management and targeted support.

The center supports capable Hunan enterprises in development and operation, and sets up "Hunan Industrial Cooperation Parks" in ASEAN countries when conditions are ripe. China (Changsha) ASEAN Economic and Trade Cooperation Headquarters Base deeply participates in the China-Cambodia sihanoukville Industrial Development Corridor and the China-Cambodia Laos-Hunan Logistics Branch of Combined Transport, prioritizing layout in Cambodia Sihanoukville and the four northeastern provinces, as well as Vientiane, Laos. It supports capable Hunan enterprises in development and operation, and encourages Hunan enterprises to "chain out to sea" to form a complete industrial ecosystem, reducing overall costs.

Relying on the policy advantages of the China (Hunan) Pilot Free Trade Zone, we will build an "ASEAN Enterprise Park" in Hunan to guide ASEAN enterprises to "embed into Hunan". Targeting the weak links in Hunan industrial chain, we will selectively introduce key raw materials and core component suppliers from ASEAN, embedding them into the local industrial chain to enhance the stability and resilience of the supply chain. We will provide services such as China market access guidance, channel docking, and technology and capital cooperation for ASEAN enterprises settling in, helping them "deepen their roots in Hunan and expand nationwide".

The center leverages authoritative Chinese research institutions including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, and Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, while collaborating with ASEAN research organizations such as Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research and Malaysia's Palm Oil Board to establish the "Hunan-ASEAN Joint Innovation Platform." This initiative promotes the creation of joint laboratories between Hunan universities (including Central South University, Hunan University, and Hunan Agricultural University) and ASEAN research institutions, facilitating the two-way flow of technological innovation achievements between Hunan and ASEAN regions.

The center has established a market-driven innovation mechanism and an evaluation system centered on market demand, technological feasibility, and resource availability. By integrating Hunan's R&D strengths with ASEAN's market needs, it has developed applied technologies such as "small unmanned intelligent agricultural machinery," "fast-charging electric bicycle technology," and "fish fry breeding and cultivation technology." Simultaneously, the center introduces ASEAN's specialized technologies to Hunan, particularly to enhance the processing capabilities of Hunan's food industry. This approach achieves a seamless transition from "technological R&D" to "industrial application," injecting sustained innovative momentum into Hunan-ASEAN industrial collaboration.

The Center collaborates with research institutions and technology enterprises to build a three-dimensional ecosystem characterized by "market pull, two-way circulation, and full-factor empowerment," along with an integrated incubation system for "technology-product-market." Together with research institutions and tech companies, the Center provides services such as prototype trial production and preliminary performance testing for laboratory technologies, reducing early-stage technical risks. During the product definition phase, potential users from ASEAN are invited to participate in design reviews to ensure that product functions and pricing strategies align with local market demands. The Center also jointly establishes "Cooperation Demonstration Bases" with research institutions and technology enterprises, offering partners services in intellectual property and standards, market promotion, and business partnership matchmaking.