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Bordering Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, Yunnan has been a frontline of interconnection and exchanges between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, said Chen Lijun, vice president of the China (Kunming) Academy of South and Southeast Asian Studies.
In 2020, China and the ASEAN for the first time became each other's largest partners.
INTERNATIONAL CHANNELS
The Kunming Dounan Flower Market is the largest fresh cut flower trading market in Asia, from where flowers are loaded and arrive in Bangkok of Thailand in about 40 hours via the highway between the provincial capital of Kunming and Bangkok, Thailand.
It is estimated that some 8 million or 10 million flowers are sold from the market overseas, among which 20 percent to 30 percent are purchased by buyers from South and Southeast Asian countries.
The Yunnan sections of international expressways leading to Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar have been opened to traffic. In late 2020, the Dali-Lincang high-speed railway was put into use.
The Kunming-Vientiane railway linking Yunnan with Laos, another key project, is expected to be opened this year, allowing trains to travel between the two cities in one day.
The improved infrastructure has paved the way for Yunnan to build a global logistics center, with flower being the main commodity, according to the provincial authorities.
CLOSE EXCHANGES
Siddhant Subedi was learning how to select and make tea in a Kunming-based training class.
Curious about many aspects of Chinese culture, the 22-year-old Nepali student chose to study business administration after learning Chinese for one year.
In recent years, Yunnan has accelerated international exchanges and cooperation in education. Many overseas students like Subedi chose Yunnan to further their studies.
OPEN ECONOMY
It is winter, but the atmosphere is fiery in a fruit transaction market in Wanding, a city sitting at the China-Myanmar border.
Following epidemic-control procedures, workers were loading watermelons from Myanmar onto trucks bound for the Chinese inland and coastal cities.
Meanwhile, at a workshop 40 km away, motorcycle production lines are running as normal. Despite the impact of the epidemic, more than 300,000 motorcycles were exported to Myanmar in 2020.
Data shows that the foreign trade volume in Yunnan increased from 24.5 billion dollars in 2015 to 33.6 billion dollars in 2019. Its trade with South Asian and Southeast Asian countries soared to 17.4 billion dollars, an annual average growth of 5.4 percent.
The Yunnan pilot free trade zone (FTZ), established in August 2019, has become a new carrier for open economic development.
In 2020, the foreign trade of the Yunnan pilot FTZ reached 71.79 billion yuan, surging 91.4 percent year on year, driving the overall growth of Yunnan's foreign trade by 14.8 percentage points.
Source：www.xinhua.com
