The role that businesses have played in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic will be the focus of the latest Vision China to be broadcast on Friday.

Themed "Fighting COVID-19: The Corporate Response", the event will invite corporate executives and experts from COFCO Corporation, China Railway Group and BGI Genomics' Huo-Yan Laboratory in Africa.

They will share their companies' stories in the fight against COVID-19 and discuss how enterprises can better fulfill their social responsibility in pandemic prevention and control, and economic and social development.

Launched in 2018 by China Daily, Vision China invites renowned political, business and academic speakers to tell China's story from global perspectives and discuss major China-related topics of international interest. It is a broad platform to make China's voice better heard around the world, as well as to build a new channel to respond to global concerns on major China-related issues.

Vision China has been held 12 times so far in a wide variety of places, including Beijing, Tianjin, Hangzhou, Macao, the United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa. The Friday event is the fourth Vision China broadcast online related to the fight against COVID-19.