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YUNNAN DAILY PRESS GROUP The Pioneer Vol.62 Wednesday, January 3, 2018 english.yunnan.cn Yunnan vegetables become well-known to consumers Alibaba to set up data center in India Facing 'Lancang-Mekong' Chinese enterprises made contributions Yunnan and Laos to strengthen rapid customs clearance Volume 2 of Governance striking a chord T he May in 2017, the first Belt and Road Interna- tional Cooperation Summit Forum was held in Beijing. The results of the Form cov- ered five major topics such as policy communication, facility links and removal of trade blocks with more than 270 specific achievements, many related to the energy industry. Chinese govern- ment departments issued Promote the Vision and Action of the Belt and Road Energy Cooperation and other documents to boost cooperation in the field of energy. Energy infrastructure development is imbalanced in the Belt and Road area. According to the IEA’s forecast, by 2040 the annual new installed capacity in the Belt and Road area will exceed 80 million Kilowatts and will be the world’s fastest growing region for electricity. In the Belt and Road Initiative, energy inter- connection is an important area and an important bridge connecting Asia and Europe. Since the Belt and Road Initiative was implemented, China’ import of oil from countries along the Belt and Road has hit a record high, accounting for 65% of total oil imports. It is China’s main source of oil imports. At the same time, China continues to expand the export market of its refined oil products. In 2016, its ex- ports of refined oil amounted to 19.3 billion U.S dollars, about 70% to the Belt and Road countries. From many oil and gas projects invested in the Belt and Road countries, Chinese enterprises have formed a set of exploration and develop- ment, pipeline construction and operation, engineering and technical services, refin- ing and sales of oil and gas industry chain cooperation pattern. The development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has been remark- able, becoming the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative. Under the Corri- dor framework, the number of projects under construc- tion and completed reached 20, with a total investment of about 18.7 billion U.S dollars. (This article is based on a speech given by Wang Yimin, vice president of The China Energy Research Association, at the Belt and Road International Energy Summit. Adapted from Chi- na Energy News) Zhang Ruogu Han Chengyuan Liu Ziyu Kyle Warwick Tomlinson Cultivate tropical biology talents HSR injects new impetus into Yunnan economy Energy cooperaion becomes the new economic drive In B&R region Contact us: Phone:(+86)871- 64166895/64191465 Email:[email protected] Address:337 Xinwen Road, Kunming, Yunnan,PRC 10 kilometers away from the Kunming South High-Speed Railway Sta- tion, Asia’s largest market for fresh cut flowers – Kun- ming Chenggong District Dounan Flower Market is bustling. “This year, our flower sales have increased by at least 30%.” Mr. Zhou, who has been selling carnations for more than 10 years, believes that the operation of high-speed trains has injected new impetus into the Dounan Flower Market. More and more tourists make Dounan Flower Mar- ket the last stop of their trip to Yunnan. By the end of 2016, the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway and Yunnan-Guangxi railway Kunming section opened to traffic and Yunnan entered a high-speed rail era. By the end of November 2017, within less than one year, Kunming South Station has seen about 6.45 million passengers and 6.55 million passengers leaving and ar- riving, respectively. High-Speed rail not only benefits the Dounan Flower Market. The con- struction of high-speed rail and inter-city network rely on Kunming South station. Mushroom collectors in Chongxiong, Yuxi and other cities sell mushrooms to different places in China via high-speed rail trains. Since the opening of the high-speed railway, travel time from Yunnan to Bei - jing, Shanghai and Guang- zhou have been shortened by more than two-thirds, driving a vigorous growth in Yunnan’s tourism economy. Puzhehei, a scenic spot in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Qiubei County of Yunnan Province stepped directly into the high-speed rail era from having previously had no railway at all. According to Qiubei County Govern- ment’s statistics, Puzhehei received 1.717 million visi- tors in the first half of 2017 with an overall income of nearly 1.2 billion yuan, which increased 23.3% and 46.3% respectively com- pared with the same period last year. Since the Shang - hai-Kunming high-speed rail and Yunnan-Guangxi railway opened to traffic, China Railway Kunming Bureau Group Co. Ltd. has increased trains to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other cities to meet market demand.Currently 65.5 round trips run daily. Yunnan is committed to building a comprehensive transport system connecting South and Southeast Asia, in future it will be trans - formed from a National transportation network “pe- ripheral” into a “hub portal” for China to connect with South and Southeast Asia. (Xinhua/Ding Yiquan) Between Kunming East Railway Station and Wangjiaying West Station, four portals between the newly built line 2 and the container line were successfully completed on December 17,2017. Since then, Yunnan Railway’s larg- est marshalling station and cargo terminal has increased from a single line to three lines. The railway freight car dis- assembly, handling and transit time has been greatly compressed. The capacity of Yunnan’s largest railway land port has been successfully expanded. (People’s Railway Newspaper) On December 28, 2017, G1372 to Shang- hai Hongqiao EMU slowly drove out of Kunming South Sta - tion. Unlike other trains docked there, this train was the Fuxing EMU used on September 21 to achieve 350 kilome- ters per hour for com- mercial operation. China Railway Cor- poration organized do- mestic enterprises, uni - versities and research institutes to research, then manufacture the Fuxing bullet train. With the speed at 350 kilometers per hour on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail, China has become the world’s fastest high-speed rail business. The car has a full WiFi network cov - erage and non-stop 220V power outlets for passengers to use. Its air-conditioning system is fully equipped to reduce the influence of outside air pressure, and to reduce ear discomfort when passing through tunnels. (Abridged from Yunnan Daily) R ecently, at the “Char- acteristic Yunnan, Charming Winter Agricul- ture ”2017 Yunnan Plateau Characteristics of Modern Agriculture (Beijing) Pro- motion, fresh vegetables from Yunnan became the focus. Yunnan’s minimum el- evation is 76 meters and the highest elevation is more than 6,700 meters, covering all the climatic environ - ments from tropical to Frig- id Zone to form a unique coexistent scene of “One mountain and four seasons on different days within ten kilometers” and “Winter Flowers and Summer Snow Mountain”. On the day of “Charac- teristic Yunnan, Charming Winter Agriculture”2017 Yunnan Plateau Character- istics of Modern Agriculture (Beijing) Promotion, it was cold in Beijing with the north wind howling. At this time most of Yunnan, where the grass is lush and filled with cattle and sheep, there is nowhere to emit the fra- grance of winter agriculture. Dai Zhongjiu, executive director of the China Veg- etable Circulation Associa- tion said, “At present, with the rapid development of domestic economy and so- ciety, the consumption level of residents is increasing, people have higher expecta- tion for quality agricultural products. Agricultural prod- ucts are facing the devel - opment trend of scale, di- versification and branding. Today, china’s vegetable brand construction has been beginning to show results, such as the Yunnan vege- tables we see today, once unknown vegetable prod- ucts, now it is well-known by more consumers by establishing various brands. The brands also enriched millions of farmers. Through continuous optimization adjustment, Yunnan vegetable produc- tion areas gradually concen- trated with a more and more reasonable layout, realizing the significant change in the scale development from sporadic production to concentrated advantage producing areas. Now, there are 457 enterprises engaged in vegetable production and processing, of which 126 are provincial-level leading agricultural enterprises with more than 3.6 million vege- table growers. (Adapted from Yunnan Daily) Further reading Yunnan vegetables increasingly appear at domestic and global expos in recent years ( Photo by Yang Zheng ) local people in Yunnan famous tourism attraction , PuZhehei, experience the great changes the HSR brings to them. ( Photo by Chen Fei ) T he second volume of Xi Jinping: The Gov- ernance of China was dis- played with editions in a variety of languages avail- able for representatives to the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting. The book was published and went on sale in Novem- ber,2017. Mahfuz Ullah, a researcher, writer and environmentalist from Bangladesh, said that after reading the first volume of the book, which he got from the Chinese embassy in Dhaka, he was eager to read the second. “The way he (Xi) is trying to explain the world’s situation, espe - cially given Xi’s respon- sibility to the leadership, the community and the whole political process, that is very important,” he said on the sidelines of the meeting. Marko Duric, vice-president of the Serbian Progressive Party and director of the Kosovo Affairs Office of Serbia, said reading Xi’s book is a good way to learn from the CPC’s experience and will help other political parties increase their own eco- nomic and social achieve- ments.“I took a look at this book, and I hope I will be able to find a lot of inspiring ideas and ex- amples that we can learn from,” he said. Salvador Heresi Chicoma, general sec - retary of Peruvians for Change, said the CPC’s newly elected leadership has significance not only for Chinese people, but also the world because the CPC is offering solutions on many global issues.“It is very important for people in South America to have a book about the experience of the political administration here in Chi- na, because it is a model whose characteristics are innovation and openness,” he said. The book, covering 17 topics, collects 99 of Xi’s speeches, conversations, instructions and letters between 2014 and 2017. The first volume was published in September 2014 and received wide- spread attention and praise from readers at home and abroad. The new volume depicts the practices of the CPC Central Committee with Xi at the core in unit- ing and leading the Chi - nese people to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics in a new era. (China Daily) “I am a macro ecol - ogist and I want to know how the world’s vegeta- tion is distributed. South Yunnan is a tropical forest with a savanna, and diver- sity in the middle. I like working in Yunnan,” said Dr. Tomlinson, who comes from Ireland. Dr. Tomlinson had worked for many years at the internationally re- nowned Wageningen Uni- versity of the Netherlands and currently is a leader, researcher and doctoral tutor of a research group on the Ecology and Con- servation of Tropical Botanical Garden Com- munities in Xishuangban- na, Chinese Academy of Sciences, mainly engaged in the study of natural and man-made ecological disturbances. In 2014, he was selected to the Chi - nese Academy of Science Foreign Youth Program. In 2013, Tomlinson formed an international research team of 23 young scholars from 10 countries and has chaired a national fund – Yunnan provincial joint fund project a nation- al fund project to study the effects of savanna ecol - ogy, plant functional di - versity and configuration, plant physical defense and forest fragmentation in Yunnan and Southeast Asia. His research work has greatly deepened the understanding of savanna and its diversity in arid and hot valley areas. He has overseen 17 doctoral and postgraduate students. Many times he has organized trainings for the Tropical Biology and Conservation Asso- ciation and its branch in the Asia-Pacific region, has been an organizer and expert for the Chinese Academy of Sciences “Advanced Ecology and Conservation Biology Field Training”. (Yunnan Daily) Efficient expansion of railway land port Fuxing bullet train shortens the distance between KM &SH T hemed “Ecological Diqing - Paradise for Birds”, the second Shangri-La Winter International Birding Festival was held in Diqing, Yunnan Province from Decem- ber 13 to 17, 2017. 17 teams participated in the competition. The Birding Festival was held at the Shangri-La Napahai International wetland and Songzanlin Temple. The aim of the competition was to show the world the natural resources in Yunnan and Shangri-La, and the advantages and value of developing ecotourism for bird watching. The photo is a work of Shangri-La team called the Lunch of White-tailed eagle. (Photo by Zhou Shizhong) C hina E-commerce company Alibaba Group Cloud Computing Department announced that its first data center will be set up in Bombay, India before March 31, 2018, and another one will be established in Ja- karta. Simon Hu, Alibaba Group’s senior vice pres- ident, said at the Shang- hai Cloud Computing In- ternational Summit, “As the only global cloud ser- vice provider from Asia, Ali Cloud has a unique cultural and contextual advantage to provide in- novative data intelligence and computing capabil - ities to customers in the region. The establish - ment of data centers in India and Indonesia will further consolidate Ali’s position in the region and even globally.” (Huanqiu.com) T he Third Lanchang-Me- kong Coopera - tion(LMC)Foreign Min - isters’ Meeting was held in Dali, Yunnan recently. The Meeting delivered a lot of information and the Lancang-Mekong Coopera- tion Five-Year Action Plan (2018-2022) excited each participant. Looking for - ward to the next five years, Yunnan, a frontier province of Lancang-Mekong Co - operation,will make great contributions. Since 2015, the Lan - cang-Mekong cooperation process produced a spot - less report card in the field of economic and trade cooperation. Two-way trade is growing rapidly, and the degree of trade de- pendence is strengthening. China is now the largest trade partner of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam and is the largest export market of Myan - mar. The Mekong area as a whole is the fifth largest trade partner of China. In the period January to October in 2017,China and Mekong countries trade was valued at 177.57 billion U.S dollars, an increase of 15.6% year- on-year, and accounts for 5.4% of China’s total worldwide trade volume. For the Lancang-Me - kong Cooperation, Chinese enterprises have made great contributions to the infrastructure construction in the five Mekong coun- tries. As of October this year, Chinese companies’ had signed contracts for infrastructure projects in the five countries valued at 137.99 billion U.S dollars. C hina Mengla Customs and Lao Moding Cus- toms held 2017 work-related talks. The two sides reached consensus on strengthening multifaceted cooperation. The two sides agreed to take further measures to strengthen rapid customs clearance for China and Laos railway materials, equipment and transporta- tion tools; to support the development of China and Laos Mohan-Moding Eco- nomic Cooperation Zone, and actively explore a new mode of supervision and cooperation. According to the head of Mengla Customs, by setting up a special win - dow and opening a “green pass” this year,Mohan Customs optimized servic- es to accelerate customs clearance for China Laos railway construction ma - terials and the integration of customs clearance re - form. At the same time, a Customs Clearance Co - operation Test Zone was constructed together with the Yunnan Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.
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english.yunnan.cnThe Pioneer Sunday, October 16, 2016YUNNAN DAILY PRESS GROUP english.yunnan.cnThe Pioneer Sunday, October 16, 2016YUNNAN DAILY PRESS GROUPenglish.yunnan.cnThe Pioneer Sunday, October 16, 2016YUNNAN DAILY PRESS GROUPYUNNAN DAILY PRESS GROUP The Pioneer Vol.62 Wednesday, January 3, 2018 english.yunnan.cn
Yunnan vegetables become well-known to consumers
Alibaba to set up data center in India
Facing 'Lancang-Mekong'Chinese enterprises made contributions
Yunnan and Laos to strengthen rapid customs clearance
Volume 2 of Governance striking a chord
The May in 2017, the first Belt and Road Interna-tional Cooperation Summit Forum was held in Beijing. The results of the Form cov-ered five major topics such as policy communication, facility links and removal of trade blocks with more than 270 specific achievements, many related to the energy industry. Chinese govern-ment departments issued Promote the Vision and Action of the Belt and Road Energy Cooperation and other documents to boost cooperation in the field of energy.
Energy infrastructure development is imbalanced in the Belt and Road area. According to the IEA’s forecast, by 2040 the annual new installed capacity in the Belt and Road area will exceed 80 million Kilowatts and will be the world’s fastest growing region for electricity. In the Belt and Road Initiative, energy inter-connection is an important area and an important bridge connecting Asia and Europe.
Since the Belt and Road Initiative was implemented, China’ import of oil from countries along the Belt and Road has hit a record high, accounting for 65% of total oil imports. It is China’s
main source of oil imports. At the same time, China continues to expand the export market of its refined oil products. In 2016, its ex-ports of refined oil amounted to 19.3 billion U.S dollars, about 70% to the Belt and Road countries.
From many oil and gas projects invested in the Belt and Road countries, Chinese enterprises have formed a set of exploration and develop-ment, pipeline construction and operation, engineering and technical services, refin-ing and sales of oil and gas industry chain cooperation pattern.
The development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has been remark-able, becoming the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative. Under the Corri-dor framework, the number of projects under construc-tion and completed reached 20, with a total investment of about 18.7 billion U.S dollars.
(This article is based on a speech given by Wang Yimin, vice president of The China Energy Research Association, at the Belt and Road International Energy Summit. Adapted from Chi-na Energy News)
Zhang RuoguHan Chengyuan
Liu Ziyu
Kyle Warwick TomlinsonCultivate tropical biology talents
HSR injects new impetus into
Yunnan economy
Energy cooperaion becomes the new
economic driveIn B&R region
Contact us:Phone:(+86)871-
64166895/64191465Email:[email protected]
Address:337 Xinwen Road, Kunming,
Yunnan,PRC
10 k i lometers away from the Kunming South High-Speed Railway Sta-tion, Asia’s largest market for fresh cut flowers – Kun-ming Chenggong District Dounan Flower Market is bustling.
“This year, our flower sales have increased by at least 30%.” Mr. Zhou, who has been selling carnations for more than 10 years, believes that the operation of high-speed trains has injected new impetus into the Dounan Flower Market. More and more tourists make Dounan Flower Mar-ket the last stop of their trip to Yunnan.
By the end of 2016, the Shanghai -Kunming high-speed rai lway and Yunnan-Guangxi railway Kunming section opened to traffic and Yunnan entered a high-speed rail era. By the end of November 2017, within less than one year, Kunming South Station has seen about 6.45 million passengers and 6.55 million passengers leaving and ar-riving, respectively.
High-Speed rai l not only benefits the Dounan Flower Market. The con-struction of high-speed rail and inter-city network rely on Kunming South station. Mushroom collectors in Chongxiong, Yuxi and other cities sell mushrooms to different places in China via high-speed rail trains.
Since the opening of the
high-speed railway, travel time from Yunnan to Bei-jing, Shanghai and Guang-zhou have been shortened by more than two-thirds, driving a vigorous growth in Yunnan’s tourism economy. Puzhehei, a scenic spot in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Qiubei County of Yunnan Province stepped directly into the high-speed rail era from having previously had no railway at all. According to Qiubei County Govern-ment’s statistics, Puzhehei received 1.717 million visi-tors in the first half of 2017 with an overall income of nearly 1.2 billion yuan, which increased 23.3% and 46.3% respectively com-pared with the same period last year.
S i n c e t h e S h a n g -hai-Kunming high-speed rail and Yunnan-Guangxi railway opened to traffic, China Railway Kunming Bureau Group Co. Ltd. has increased trains to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other cities to meet market demand.Current ly 65.5 round trips run daily.
Yunnan is committed to building a comprehensive transport system connecting South and Southeast Asia, in future it will be trans-formed from a National transportation network “pe-ripheral” into a “hub portal” for China to connect with South and Southeast Asia.
(Xinhua/Ding Yiquan)
Between Kunming East Railway Station and Wangjiaying West S ta t ion , four por ta ls between the newly built line 2 and the container line were successfully completed on December 17,2017. Since then, Yunnan Railway’s larg-est marshalling station and cargo terminal has
increased from a single line to three lines. The railway freight car dis-assembly, handling and transit t ime has been greatly compressed. The capacity of Yunnan’s largest railway land port has been successfully expanded.
(People’s Railway Newspaper)
On December 28, 2017, G1372 to Shang-h a i H o n g q i a o E M U s lowly d rove ou t o f Kunming South S ta -tion. Unlike other trains docked there, this train was the Fuxing EMU used on September 21 to achieve 350 kilome-ters per hour for com-mercial operation.
China Railway Cor-poration organized do-mestic enterprises, uni-versities and research institutes to research, then manufacture the F u x i n g b u l l e t t r a i n . With the speed at 350
kilometers per hour on the Beij ing-Shanghai high-speed rail, China has become the world’s fastest high-speed rail business.
The car has a full Wi F i n e t w o r k c o v -e r a g e a n d n o n - s t o p 220V power outlets for passengers to use. Its air-conditioning system i s fu l ly equ ipped to reduce the influence of outside air pressure, and to reduce ear discomfort when passing through tunnels.
( A b r i d g e d f r o m Yunnan Daily)
Recently, at the “Char-a c t e r i s t i c Yu n n a n , Charming Winter Agricul-ture ”2017 Yunnan Plateau Characteristics of Modern Agriculture (Beijing) Pro-motion, fresh vegetables from Yunnan became the focus.
Yunnan’s minimum el-evation is 76 meters and the highest elevation is more than 6,700 meters, covering all the climatic environ-ments from tropical to Frig-id Zone to form a unique coexistent scene of “One mountain and four seasons on different days within ten
kilometers” and “Winter Flowers and Summer Snow Mountain”.
On the day of “Charac-teristic Yunnan, Charming Winter Agriculture”2017 Yunnan Plateau Character-istics of Modern Agriculture (Beijing) Promotion, it was cold in Beijing with the north wind howling. At this time most of Yunnan, where the grass is lush and filled with cattle and sheep, there is nowhere to emit the fra-grance of winter agriculture.
Dai Zhongjiu, executive director of the China Veg-etable Circulation Associa-
tion said, “At present, with the rapid development of domestic economy and so-ciety, the consumption level of residents is increasing, people have higher expecta-tion for quality agricultural products. Agricultural prod-ucts are facing the devel-opment trend of scale, di-versification and branding. Today, china’s vegetable brand construction has been beginning to show results, such as the Yunnan vege-tables we see today, once unknown vegetable prod-ucts, now it is well-known by more consumers by
establishing various brands. The brands also enriched millions of farmers.
Through continuous optimization adjustment, Yunnan vegetable produc-tion areas gradually concen-trated with a more and more reasonable layout, realizing the significant change in the sca le development from sporadic production to concentrated advantage producing areas. Now, there are 457 enterprises engaged in vegetable production and processing, of which 126 are provincial-level leading agricultural enterprises with
more than 3.6 million vege-table growers.
(Adapted from Yunnan Daily)
Further reading
Yunnan vegetables increasingly appear at domestic and global expos in recent years (Photo by Yang Zheng)
local people in Yunnan famous tourism attraction , PuZhehei, experience the great changes the HSR brings to them.
(Photo by Chen Fei)
The second volume of Xi Jinping: The Gov-ernance of China was dis-played with editions in a variety of languages avail-able for representatives to the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting. The book was published and went on sale in Novem-ber,2017.
M a h f u z U l l a h , a researcher, writer and environmentalist from Bangladesh, said that after reading the first volume of the book, which he got from the Chinese embassy in Dhaka, he was eager to read the second.
“The way he (X i )
is trying to explain the world’s situation, espe-cially given Xi’s respon-sibility to the leadership, the community and the whole political process, that is very important,” he said on the sidelines of the meeting.
M a r k o D u r i c , v i ce -p res iden t o f the S e r b i a n P r o g r e s s i v e Party and director of the Kosovo Affairs Office of Serbia, said reading Xi’s book is a good way to learn from the CPC’s experience and will help other poli t ical part ies increase their own eco-nomic and social achieve-ments.“I took a look at
this book, and I hope I will be able to find a lot of inspiring ideas and ex-amples that we can learn from,” he said.
S a l v a d o r H e r e s i Chicoma, general sec-retary of Peruvians for Change, said the CPC’s newly elected leadership has significance not only for Chinese people, but also the world because the CPC is offering solutions on many global issues.“It i s very impor tan t for people in South America to have a book about the experience of the political administration here in Chi-na, because it is a model whose characteristics are
innovation and openness,” he said.
The book, covering 17 topics, collects 99 of Xi’s speeches, conversations, instructions and letters between 2014 and 2017. The f i rs t volume was published in September 2014 and received wide-spread attention and praise from readers at home and abroad. The new volume depicts the practices of the CPC Central Committee with Xi at the core in unit-ing and leading the Chi-nese people to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics in a new era.
(China Daily)
“I am a macro ecol-ogist and I want to know how the world’s vegeta-tion is distributed. South Yunnan is a tropical forest with a savanna, and diver-sity in the middle. I like working in Yunnan,” said Dr. Tomlinson, who comes from Ireland.
Dr. Tomlinson had worked for many years at the internationally re-nowned Wageningen Uni-versity of the Netherlands and currently is a leader,
researcher and doctoral tutor of a research group on the Ecology and Con-serva t ion of Tropica l Botanical Garden Com-munities in Xishuangban-na, Chinese Academy of Sciences, mainly engaged in the study of natural and man-made ecological disturbances. In 2014, he was selected to the Chi-nese Academy of Science Foreign Youth Program.
In 2013, Tomlinson formed an international
research team of 23 young scholars from 10 countries and has chaired a national fund – Yunnan provincial joint fund project a nation-al fund project to study the effects of savanna ecol-ogy, plant functional di-versity and configuration, plant physical defense and forest fragmentation in Yunnan and Southeast Asia. His research work has greatly deepened the understanding of savanna and its diversity in arid
and hot valley areas. He has overseen 17
doctoral and postgraduate students. Many times he has organized trainings for the Tropical Biology and Conservation Asso-ciation and its branch in the Asia-Pacific region, has been an organizer and expert for the Chinese Academy of Sciences “Advanced Ecology and Conservat ion Biology Field Training”.
(Yunnan Daily)
Efficient expansion of railway land port
Fuxing bullet trainshortens the distance
between KM &SH
Themed “Ecological Diqing - Paradise for Birds”, the second Shangri-La Winter International Birding Festival was held in Diqing, Yunnan Province from Decem-ber 13 to 17, 2017. 17 teams participated in the competition. The Birding Festival was held at the Shangri-La Napahai International wetland and Songzanlin Temple. The aim of the competition was to show the world the natural resources in Yunnan and Shangri-La, and the advantages and value of developing ecotourism for bird watching. The photo is a work of Shangri-La team called the Lunch of White-tailed eagle.
(Photo by Zhou Shizhong)
China E-commerce company Al ibaba Group Cloud Computing Department announced that its first data center will be set up in Bombay, India before March 31, 2018, and another one will be established in Ja-karta.
Simon Hu, Alibaba Group’s senior vice pres-ident, said at the Shang-hai Cloud Computing In-ternational Summit, “As the only global cloud ser-vice provider from Asia, Ali Cloud has a unique cultural and contextual advantage to provide in-
novative data intelligence and computing capabil-ities to customers in the region. The establish-ment of data centers in India and Indonesia will further consolidate Ali’s position in the region and even globally.”
(Huanqiu.com)
The Third Lanchang-Me-k o n g C o o p e r a -tion(LMC)Foreign Min-isters’ Meeting was held in Dali, Yunnan recently. The Meeting delivered a lot of information and the Lancang-Mekong Coopera-tion Five-Year Action Plan (2018-2022) excited each participant. Looking for-ward to the next five years, Yunnan, a frontier province of Lancang-Mekong Co-operation,will make great contributions.
Since 2015, the Lan-cang-Mekong cooperation process produced a spot-less report card in the field o f economic and t r ade c o o p e r a t i o n . Tw o - w a y trade is growing rapidly, and the degree of trade de-pendence is strengthening.China is now the largest trade partner of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam and is the largest export market of Myan-mar. The Mekong area as a whole is the fifth largest t rade partner of China. In the period January to October in 2017,China
and Mekong coun t r i e s trade was valued at 177.57 b i l l ion U.S dol la rs , an increase of 15.6% year-o n - y e a r, a n d a c c o u n t s for 5.4% of China’s total worldwide trade volume.
For the Lancang-Me-kong Cooperation, Chinese en t e rp r i s e s have made great contributions to the infrastructure construction in the five Mekong coun-tries. As of October this year, Chinese companies’ had signed contracts for infrastructure projects in the five countries valued at 137.99 billion U.S dollars.
China Mengla Customs and Lao Moding Cus-toms held 2017 work-related talks. The two sides reached consensus on strengthening multifaceted cooperation.
The two sides agreed to take further measures to strengthen rapid customs clearance for China and Laos railway materials,
equipment and transporta-tion tools; to support the development of China and Laos Mohan-Moding Eco-nomic Cooperation Zone, and actively explore a new mode of supervision and cooperation.
According to the head of Mengla Customs, by setting up a special win-dow and opening a “green pas s” t h i s yea r,Mohan
Customs optimized servic-es to accelerate customs clearance for China Laos railway construction ma-terials and the integration of customs clearance re-form. At the same time, a Customs Clearance Co-operation Test Zone was constructed together with the Yunnan En t ry -Ex i t Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.
