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BRICS mechanism has a better future

Medical team performs surgeries

in Myanmar

Two countries, one friendship across borders

The Bala village lies in the Balagezong national scenic area of Shangri-La City, north-west Yunnan Province. Sur-rounded by snow mountains, including the 5,545m Gezong peak, the village was cut off from outside world until 1970s, when a narrow pass was digged in the cliffs.

In 2007, elite Tibetan vil-lager Sina Dingzhu led his fel-low villages to gain electricity supply to households and began to develop tourism in an effort to reduce poverty.

The subsequent years are followed by dramatic chang-es. “Back to 20 years ago, I couldn’t have imaged the power and road access to my village,” said Gesang Ciren, a senior tour guide of Balagezong.

Before 2017, Ciren had been a farmer of Bala village, but now he also hosts a Tibetan gala entertaining his guests from afar.

Having sung on the stage with confidence, he told Yun-nan Daily reporters that today’ Bala village is shining in tour-ism.

On the evening of August 16, tourists from Sichuan, Zhe-jiang, Guangdong and Hunan provinces were greatly enter-tained by his gala with strong Tibetan flavor.

In Riren’s memory, Bala villagers were impoverished. Due to severe poverty, most vil-lagers moved outside, leaving 30 odd poorest households.

“Now villagers work in the scenic area, and the man-agement rented their land. The average income of each house-

hold currently stands around 70,000 yuan,” said Luorong Cile, adding that 14 families have moved back thanks to the changes.

The changing Bala also changes people’s life in its neighboring areas.

Li Daohua, a Tibetan tour guide who has been working in the scenic area since 2013, comes from another village over 100km off Bala. During travel seasons, Li guides several groups in a singe day.

With a zigzag road wind-ing to the foot of the natural Shambhala pagoda at 4,200m elevation, the scenic area will usher in faster changes.

“More diverse tour packag-es will be developed, including mushroom picking, camping, hiking and parent-kid packag-es,”said Sina Dingzhu.

At the 2017 Spring Festival, a show called “one city in two countries” was performed on the banks of south Yunnan’s Hekou landport. On stage, per-formers from China and Viet-nam sang the same song in each other’s language and played the same piece of music. Off stage, nearly 3000 people, including representatives from northern Vietnam and Chinese people celebrated the festival together.

“The cultural activities can give full play to the exemplary role of cross-border ethnic cul-tural exchange to promote the bilateral culture exchanges and development, and lay a social and public foundation for a broader and deeper communica-tion, ”Said Mao Li, the director of Hekou Yao Autonomous County Publicity Department.

China-Vietnam two coun-tries,one track international cycling competition, China-Vietnam Border Fair ethnic cultural dis-play……The cultural brands of the two countries are being contin-uously enriched in these years.

Li Jianmei used to live in Vietnam but returned to her-hometown in Hekou. In 2007,

dozens of local people from Hekou with the same experience formed a singing and dancing performance team.

Whenever invited by the Vietnam side, the performance team members pay from their own pockets to buy costumes and props, happily going abroad and bringing home records of

their achievements. Over the past decade, the team traveled all over the province and beyond the boundary of the border resident certificates, with support from both China and Vietnam. They often invite Vietnamese folk art teams to come to China. Because of this, Li Jianmei has more and more Vietnamese friends.

“There are 24 singing and dancing performance teams in the Hekou. Over half of them have exchange experience with Vietnam.” Wu Jing is an art instructor from Hekou County Cultural Center and is often invited to teach performance teams. “Dance performances by Yao, Miao, Dai and Dong people are welcomed by Viet-namese audience.”

“Whether official or non-of-ficial, we all actively promote cultural exchanges between the two countries.”

During the advancement of the Belt and Road Initia-tive, unimpeded trade is the fo-cal point of common interest to all countries along with a goal of mutual benefit.

To promote investment and trade facilitation, create business-friendly environment and unleash the potential of cooperation, Yunnan is taking the lead through efforts to make the “cake” of common interests bigger and better.

Faster customs clearance facilitates trade

On 16th of June, the Yun-nan Provincial Department of Commerce, Kunming Customs, and the Yunnan Entry-Exit In-spection and Quarantine Bureau launched a pilot cooperation project of customs clearance. The customs and inspection and quarantine departments adopts a cooperative “one declaration, one inspection and one clear-ance” process by strengthening information exchange, mutual recognition and mutual assis-tance in law enforcement. It is estimated that nearly 3000 lots

of goods will avoid repeated inspections and the detention time of goods at the port will be in total reduced by more than 1500 hours per year.

Yunnan has 25 ports for personnel,goods or means of transport to enter or leave China. In the past five years,in-frastructure construction of all ports has been improved. Port management departments at different levels introduced policies and measures while the inspection departments cleaned up and standardized fees, re-sulting in a savings of over 13.6

million US dollars for import and export enterprises.

In port cooperation, Yun-nan has set up bilateral cooper-ation mechanism with relevant provinces of Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar. A mechanism for regular meetings and timely communication has been estab-lished between each prefectural and municipal Port Office, For-eign Affairs Office, Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Department, Frontier Inspection and their respective departments in Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.

More mechanisms to pro-mote cooperation

On August 31, 2015, the China Mohan-Laos Boten Eco-nomic Cooperation Zone Joint General Plan was officially signed. Today, the Chinese part of the Mohan-Boten special freight channel has been com-pleted and the building of the Lao part has begun. Cross-bor-der tourism, e-commerce, logis-tics, processing and trading, and other related industries have been developing rapidly here.

The construction of the China(Hekou) - Vietnam(Lao

Cai) Cross-Border Economic Cooperation Zone is accel-erating. Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture has allocated a special fund of 100 million yuan for infrastructure construction in the zone.

At the Belt and Road Forum for International Co-operation, the Ministries of Commerce of China and My-anmar signed a memorandum of understanding on the con-struction of a China-Myanmar Border Economic Cooperation Zone. The China(Ruili)-My-anmar(Muse) Cross-border

Economic Cooperation Zone is becoming a highlight of bilateral economic and trade cooperation.

The offices of overseas commerce established by Yun-nan Province have presence in South and Southeast Asian countries. In recent years the overseas investment of Yunnan is diversified in the fields of tra-ditional industries of agriculture, mining and power, and expand-ed to pharmaceuticals, rising service industry, e-commerce services and cultural industry.

Exhibition platforms in-cluding the China-South Asia Expo and Kunming Import and Export Commodities Fair, China(Kunming) International Travel Mart have developed rapidly. Yunnan has gathered people and logistics that drive the funds flow and Yunnan’s radiation ability is increasing.

Yunnan has speeded up its investment promotion and operation in the Lao Saysettha Comprehensive Development Zone. It actively followed up on the construction projects of Siem Reap International Airport Industrial Park, Myanmar Man-dalay Industrial Park.

Make the 'cake' of common interests bigger

Luo Rongchan

Peng XiLiu Ziyu

Although BRICS countries differ in terms of cultural history, economic growth and social traditions, they are all emerging economies with similar concerns about many global issues and each with its own advantages. When com-pared with the G7, we can dis-cover that BRICS has a better future.

From the perspective of economic ratios and contri-bution rates, in 2016 BRICS accounted for more than 30% of the global economy with a 60% contribution rate, which far exceeds the G7. As a glob-al multilateral cooperation mechanism without the partic-ipation of western developed countries, BRICS is bringing back from the rim those de-veloping countries that had almost lost their voice on global governance platforms, returning them to the central area. From that standpoint, the BRICS countries of Chi-na, Russian, India, Brazil and South Africa advocate non-in-terference in other countries’ internal affairs, seek peaceful development, support the United Nations continuing to play a central role, and call for a new, more equitable and reasonable international eco-nomic and political order.

BRICS foreign ministers’

meetings have been held since 2006, and in only 10 years BRICS cooperation has become an important force in global governance, starting from scratch and growing from small to large. Now, there are more than 100 BRICS meetings annually.

Of course, there are dif-ferences and conflicts among the BRICS countries. Bumps are hardly avoidable. Instead, the convergence of interests, strategic cooperation and win-win solutions are the mainstream, with overall interests in cooperation. This September, BRICS leaders will meet in Xiamen, Chi-na. It will be an important point in time to determine a new process for the second decade of BRICS. We be-lieve that BRICS countries, together with other emerging countries, will seek common ground and mutual benefits to overcome their cultural differences so that they can contribute more effectively to global economic develop-ment through programmatic cooperation, letting BRICS shine more brightly.

(Wang Wen, Professor of the Chong Yang Institute of Finance, Renmin University of China. Excerpts from Peo-ple’s Daily Overseas Edition)Bala village: Tourism development

brings big changes in life

Zhang RuoguZhu Dan

Yue Xiaoqiong

Ji Zheng

“It’s coming!” All the people were held their breath with their sights were drawn by a few small Yunnan Golden Monkeys jumped from one branch to another, and tried to hold their mobile phones or cameras to take pictures. On the morning of the 15th August, at Tacheng Yunnan Golden Monkey National Park No. 7 watching site in Weixi Lisu Autonomous County, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, people from dif-ferent places were cheerfully watching the monkeys despite the drizzling rain.

“They only eat the freshest

and most delicious food,” Ai Jie, from Northeast China’s Dalian, was telling stories about Yunnan Golden Mon-keys to her nephew, like an expert. Seven years ago, Ai Jie came to Tacheng Yunnan Golden Monkey National Park for the first time. “When I first saw the monkeys, my heart was touched by their tender eyes.” Now, Ai Jie comes to Tacheng twice a year. After vis-iting many times, she became friends with the forest guards. She got to know more and more about the monkeys’ hab-its and grew to love them more and more. She said that more people should be aware of the Yunnan Golden Monkeys and

their home so that people can protect them together.

“I arrived here yesterday. I am so excited that I can partici-pate in the protection of Yunnan Golden Monkeys.” Yu Zekun, a young man from Shangdong Province, just graduated from college. Due to his interest in the monkeys, he joined a vol-unteer organization and came to the park as a volunteer. To do a better job, Yu Zekun spent about two months collecting data. “Only a mountain with such good vegetation can keep such a beautiful animal.”

At the Tacheng Yunnan Golden Monkey National Park, more and more people love the golden monkeys. It is said that there are about 1300 gold-en monkeys in Baima Snow Mountain National Nature Reserve and only 700 to 800 golden monkeys in the Tacheng area. Yu Yaohui, operation manager,told that there are 12 observing sites in total. To protect the ecology and for the monkeys’ health, the observing sites are changed every 2 to 3 days. With more and more vis-itors coming, they need to take more protective measures for Yunnan Golden Monkeys.

Recen t ly, a t eam o f experts from the Chi-nese Academy of Sciences Kunming Institute of Bot-any discovered China’s na-tionally protected Yunnan Wutong trees which people believed has been extinc-ted since nearly 20 years ago in the Jinsha River basin.

It’s a long story for

the endangered Yunnan Wutong tree. In 1998, the World Conservation Union published a list of threat-ened trees in the world and Yunnan’s Wutong tree was included as one of the extinct wild plants of China. In 1999, in the list of China’s state protected wild plants, it was deemed to have disappeared and was deleted from the list as no longer necessary to be

protected. The Yunnan Wutong

trees discovered in Ning-lang County and Yuanmou County are in two popu-lation, which contradict the conclusion that this species is extinct. Over a thousand trees in Ninglang County were discovered while eleven were found in Yuanmou County, all of which are in the unripe fruit phase.

Th e Yu n n a n B o r d e r Towns Layout Plan (2017-2030) (hereinafter called the Plan) has been approved for implemen-tation by the Provincial Government recently.

The P lan pos i t ions the border areas as new growth points in the over-all development pattern of Yunnan Province, impor-tant export-oriented advan-

tage industrial bases, and China’s gateway to South and Southeast Asia, and an important land bridge be-tween China and Eurasia.

T h e P l a n f o c u s e s on promoting the con-struction of the 3 growth poles of Mangshi-Ruili, J inghong-Mengla -Mo-han and Mengzi-Hekou. I t w i l l s t r eng then t he construct ion of 8 eco-nomic corridors,including Kunming-Mangshi-Rui-

li-Mandalay-Kyaukpyu, Kunming-Jinghong-Mo-han-Vientiane-Bangkok, K u n m i n g - M e n g z i - H e -kou-Hanoi-Hai Phong, Kunming-Longyang-Teng-chong-Myitkyina-India, Kunming-Lincang-Meng-d i n g - M a n d a l a y, K u n -m i n g - P u ’ e r - M e n g -l i a n - S h a n S t a t e o f Myanmar, Kunming-Wen-shan-Malipo-Ha Giang, Kunming-Wenshan-Fun-ing-Beibuwan.

International photography exhibition highlights

Yunnan's beauty

Nestled on a plain between the imposing Cangshan mountain range and Erhai Lake, Dali old town has long been a destination for travel-lers, especially photographers. Recently, the Dali Interna-tional Photography Exhibi-tion(DIPE) kicked off here for its seventh year.

The five-day event fea-tures four activities, which are the photo festival, the ex-hibition, photographic equip-ment meetup, and the 2nd DIPE Roundtable. More than 20,000 images of photogra-phers from all over the world have been on display, which makes the exhibition the larg-est ever in recent years.

Galleries from the main-land, China’s Taiwan, Japan,

Spain, Norway, Germany and South and Southeast Asian countries have also brought their works to the event.

Liu Ming, president of Yunnan Photographers Asso-ciation, said, “DIPE covers from nature to history and culture, including subjects of Lancang-Mekong River and Yunnan-Vietnam Rail-way. The exhibition is partly designed to show the rapid economic and social devel-opment of Yunnan Province from different angles.”

In addition, the DIPE set up an online exhibition to complement and extend the shows and let people know what exhibitions are presently on view.

(Yunnan Daily)

Cyclists cheer each other on at the China-Vietnam two countries, one track cycling competition. (Online photo)

Myanmar staff assemble motorcycles at Ruili factory. (File photo) People accept border inspection at Mohan landport. (File photo)

A glimple of Jianchuan County, Dali City. (Online photo)

A Tibetan gala is held every night at Balagezong. (Photo by Zhou Can)

Tacheng, home to Yunnan Golden Monkeys

A medical team formed by the Yunnan Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission and Yunnan Pro-vincial 2nd People’s Hospital left Kunming for Yangon My-anmar to roll out a welfare pro-ject called “walking in bright”.

The journalist learned that the medical team is equipped with more than 30,000 US dol-lars of medical equipment and medicines and conducted 200 cataract surgeries at a hospital in Myanmar in one week.

The team leader said that a top-level team of ophthalmolo-gists was formed. Through the project, hospital exchanges and cooperation between China and Myanmar will be enhanced.

Yunnan Wutong trees rediscovered in Jinsha River basin

Yunnan to build eighteconomic corridors