Border areas in Yunnan to be 'livelier' and 'brighter'

At China’s “Two Sessions”, the government work report put forward by Prime Minister Li Keqiang proposed that in 2018, we must “strengthen the opening up of the western, inland and border areas and create new space for economic cooperation.”

Under the leadership of Li Jiang,a member of the CPPCC and Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Yunnan members of the CPPCC jointly initiated the “Proposal on Enhancing the Image of China’s Hub of Southeast Asian Key Port Cities,” and called for special tariffs and supporting development policies for Ruili City, Hekou County, and Mohan Port, to effectively improve the image of China’s hub of Southeast Asia’s key ports in cities, and give full play to the important supporting role of the cities along the border, to promote the construction of the Belt and Road.

Yunnan members of the CPPCC National Committee believe that Ruili, Hekou, and Mohan in Yunnan are important nodes on the China-Myanmar, China-Vietnam, and China-Laos economic corridors. We hope that the Yunnan border highway projects will be included in national planning to strengthen the infrastructure construction for interconnection, to provide guarantees for the construction of economic corridors; and to support key cities such as Ruili, Hekou, and Mohan in infrastructure construction, industry, finance and taxation policies, etc. to enhance the image of the country and to give better play to its role as a hub.

Huang Liyun, a CPPCC national member, submitted the “Proposal on Accelerating the Construction of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor” and called for the inclusion of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor in the top-level design of the national Belt and Road construction, increased investment in cross-border infrastructure construction, and accelerated construction of the China-Myanmar border economic cooperation zone to facilitate the exchange of people in the border area between China and Myanmar. “Exploring the construction of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor is a major consensus reached by high-level officials of China and Myanmar. The peoples of the two countries are waiting expectantly and the international community, especially South and Southeast Asian countries, are very interested.”

CPPCC Committee member He Qing called for the resumption of the China-Myanmar railway construction as soon as possible, to co-ordinate the Western Route project for the construction of the Trans-Asian Railway, and the construction plan for the Ruili-Mujie-Jiaopiao Railway, with one-time planning and step-by-step implementation.

Reporting by Cheng Sanjuan, Yin Ruifeng and Liu Xiaoying; Editor: Wang Shixue