Open cooperation and integration of all the seas

At the 9th South China Expo, foreign exhibitors interacted with robots. Photo by reporter Chen Fei

A Vietnamese tour tour to Maitreya City. Photo provided by interviewee Huang Xue

Accelerate the docking of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), actively participate in the construction of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone 3.0 version; give full play to the role of cutting-edge provinces, deepen Lancang-Mekong Cooperation... In recent years, Yunnan Province has built platforms, built mechanisms, promoted win-win results, and has close exchanges with countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" to build consensus on development, deepen pragmatic cooperation, focus on institutional opening up, and actively promote higher-level opening up.

"Go to Relatives" exchanges and interactions

Yunnan, China's southwest gate and an important node for jointly building the "Belt and Road" are backed by the domestic market with a population of more than 1.4 billion, and connected to the international market of South Asia and Southeast Asia with a population of 2.5 billion. In the colorful chapters of high-quality development, open Yunnan is particularly dazzling.

Yunnan's economy needs to develop, its advantages lie in its location and its way out lies in its opening up. Relying on its unique location advantages, Yunnan continues to expand the breadth and depth of foreign cooperation, actively serves and integrates into the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", strengthens exchanges and cooperation with neighboring countries, and continues to make efforts in "soft connectivity", and promotes the continuous progress of the construction of various cooperation mechanisms.

Close interaction and interaction witness the warmth of "connection" and the power of consensus.

In recent years, the main leaders of the provincial party committee and the provincial government have led a delegation to visit, covering Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives and Oman, and promoted cooperation in multiple fields and jointly built the "Belt and Road" countries and became closer and closer to Yunnan.

Yunnan has established 12 multi- (bilateral) cooperation mechanisms between local governments of relevant countries, and the bilateral cooperation mechanism has achieved full coverage of Mekong countries. Yunnan Province has established 119 pairs of international friendly cities with 39 countries on five continents, and the international "circle of friends" has been continuously expanded. The mechanism of the Yunnan-Laos Northern Cooperation Working Group in China has been established for more than 20 years. The Yunnan-Thailand (Northern) Cooperation Working Group in China has been upgraded to the Yunnan-Thailand Cooperation Working Group in China. The China-Indian Ocean Region Blue Economic Development Cooperation Forum has built a platform for the "Global South" to jointly seek a blue future.

Yunnan has become an important link in cooperation. Through Yunnan, all countries understand China and build consensus.

Focusing on development issues such as local governance, discipline inspection, law enforcement, transportation, and agriculture, Yunnan also conducts special training, training and visits to the functional departments of the party and government of neighboring countries, strengthen exchanges and share experiences.

Weisai Kangda, deputy director of the Local Grassroots Bureau of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Laos who participated in the training of party and government cadres in Yunnan, sighed that Yunnan is the only province in China that borders Laos, and coming here is like "visiting relatives". I saw that China used development methods to eliminate the root causes of poverty in Yunnan, which is worth learning from.

In recent years, nearly 90 officials and experts from various departments in Sri Lanka have participated in the training in Yunnan, becoming practitioners and promoters of the friendship between the two sides. In mid-September, Fernando Langana, the senior deputy customs chief who had just finished his training, said that he saw a diverse and beautiful Yunnan from his study and inspection in Kunming City and Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture. He said that we should do more work to continuously expand cooperation between Sri Lanka and Yunnan.

Win-win and vibrant

Narika Kodikata, business counselor of the Sri Lankan Embassy in China, said that coming to Yunnan to participate in the South Expo every year is an important agenda for Sri Lankan. This is also the common voice of South Asia, Southeast Asia and many merchants in jointly building the "Belt and Road" country.

From the "South Asian National Products Exhibition" to today's international exhibitions, the South China Expo has become a landmark event in Yunnan and an important platform for multilateral diplomacy, economic and trade cooperation, and cultural exchanges between China and South Asia, Southeast Asian countries and regions and even countries around the world. The connotation and extension of cooperation continue to deepen and expand, injecting continuous impetus into the sustainable development of the regional economy.

Behind the South Expo is a more open Yunnan.

Working together with all parties to build a new open economic system, Yunnan is also sharing "there is an opportunity called Yunnan" with more countries.

Looking at the port, there are endless opportunities—

Yunnan is giving full play to the role of ports in opening up key nodes in domestic and foreign markets, promoting the transformation of "channel economy" to "port economy", and further promoting opening up along the border.

In recent years, Yunnan has taken Kunming International Hub Port as the core, Mohan, Hekou and Ruili key hub ports as the leader, and Mengding Qingshui River, Houqiao, Tianbao and Guanlei Port as the logistics node ports as the core, is forming. Yunnan is using ports as traffic entrances to transform location advantages into development success.

International freight tracts are full of traffic, "invisible customs clearance" for inbound and outbound passengers, "smart machine test" for border residents' trading... These scenes are a microcosm of the open and vibrant rush along the border of Yunnan.

Look at the trade network to connect with each other—

In the first half of this year, Yunnan exported 66.36 billion yuan to other member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), an increase of 7.2% year-on-year.

In recent years, various Yunnan Plateau specialty products such as Yunhua, Yunguo, Yuncai, etc. have relied on convenient customs clearance and policy dividends to enter the markets of member countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and other member countries with better costs and faster speeds, opening up a "golden track" for local enterprises.

In the first seven months of this year, Kunming Customs issued a total of 68,000 RCEP, China-ASEAN and other preferential certificates of origin for export enterprises in our province, with a visa value of 12.12 billion yuan, covering 25 countries and regions. Enterprises received tariff reductions of about 303 million yuan from importing countries based on this "paper gold" in international trade.

Yunnan Province provides the "three exemptions and three conveniences" policy measures to the five Mekong countries, and comprehensively implements facilitation measures such as Lancang-Mekong visa and ASEAN tour group visa-free entry into Xishuangbanna.

The scale of trade between Yunnan and South and Southeast Asian countries has remained above 100 billion yuan for seven consecutive years, effectively promoting regional coordinated development.

Walking on the road of openness, adhering to the concept of consultation, joint construction and sharing, Yunnan has worked firmly with the country to build a joint construction to achieve practical cooperation results, and write more win-win stories. (Reporter Luo Rongchan and Han Chengyuan)

River mouth port

The new scene of passengers and cargoes

The autumn in September is clear and the weather is cool, and the Yunnan-Jiangxi cross-border tourism market remains hot. Every morning, the Hekou Port welcomes a group of Vietnamese tourists. From here, they embarked on a trip to Yunnan.

Huang Xue, manager of Vietnam First Travel Company and brand manager of Vietnam-Yunnan Tourism Alliance, has been in the Vietnam-China tourism industry for 5 years. She discovered some differences in the tourism market this year.

"In previous years, Vietnamese tourists would travel to Yunnan with passes. They usually choose a trip of 4 days and 3 nights, and the farthest can reach Maitreya City." Huang Xue said that this year, more Vietnamese tourists are eager to see farther and richer scenery in Yunnan, and destinations such as Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture and Lijiang City are therefore favored.

This summer just now, Huang Xue and her team launched 6 Vietnam-Dianhua tour routes, which received nearly 10,000 Vietnamese tourists. "In addition to the good scenery, convenient customs clearance is also a plus. Usually, a group of tourists can complete the customs clearance process in 15 to 20 minutes."

Data shows that in the first eight months of this year, Hekou Customs, affiliated to Kunming Customs, regulated and served a total of 3.7746 million inbound and outbound passengers, an increase of 18.63% year-on-year. Hekou Customs and Port Offices, travel agencies and other units have established an information notification mechanism to timely grasp the entry and exit plans of travel groups, research groups, etc., and have launched a number of convenient measures to open a quick service channel for entry and exit tourism teams, a "green channel" for special passengers, and a bilingual consultation desk to further improve the customs clearance experience of entry and exit passengers.

The port was filled with people, and goods were shuttled back and forth, making a lively scene.

From June to October each year, it is the peak period for agricultural product exports. Recently, the reporter saw that at dawn, cold chain trucks loaded with Vietnamese dragon fruit, durian and lychees intersected with freezer trucks loaded with domestic grapes, fresh oranges and cherries, passing through the checkpoint of the Honghe Highway Bridge at the Hekou Port in an orderly manner.

Xu Yunxia, ​​head of Yunnan Dobian Trading Co., Ltd., said that the company exports more than 70 trucks of fresh fruits and vegetables to Vietnam every day. "Freshness means competitiveness. The port customs clearance efficiency is getting higher and higher. The pomegranates picked and packaged from the base in the morning can be delivered to Vietnamese customers in the afternoon."

In 2019, the first "green channel" for rapid customs clearance of agricultural and sideline products between China and Vietnam was opened at the Hekou Port. In 2025, the China-Vietnam GMS (Greater Mekong Subregion) cross-border direct access model will be operated normally at the Hekou Port. The mouth of the river, the largest land port in the Yunnan section of the China-Vietnam border, is gradually becoming the "golden corridor" for the special agricultural products of the Yunnan Plateau to move towards neighboring countries.

Customs statistics show that in the first eight months of this year, 12.63 billion yuan of imported and exported goods at Hekou Port, of which 8.85 billion yuan of exported goods were RMB 84.5 billion, an increase of 24.5% year-on-year. (Reporter Han Chengyuan, Chen, Huang Yixian)

Series cloud products

Fragrant and far-reaching reputation

Statistics show that in the first eight months of this year, Yunnan exported 10.58 billion yuan of agricultural products to countries jointly built the "Belt and Road" countries, an increase of 7.1%, accounting for 22% of Yunnan's total export value to countries jointly built the "Belt and Road".

In the process of jointly building the "Belt and Road", Yunnan has worked closely with relevant countries, and the charm of Yunpin has also risen on this "happiness road" that benefits the world.

In the morning light, the mellow coffee fragrance wafts in Junmashan Coffee Manor, Mangshi, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture. Workers are busy packing the processed coffee beans. After completing the customs clearance procedures, these batches of cloud coffee were sent to overseas markets one after another.

In the misty fragrance, Yuncha uses culture as a bridge to open up new space for foreign trade. "Our organic tea has always been very good in China. Recently, according to the needs of French customers, we have customized and exported three specifications of organic Pu'er tea cakes: 200g, 150g and 75g. The product packaging combines Chinese and French cultural elements, and is accompanied by a French version of Pu'er tea cultural stories and drinking guide." Duan Liyuan, foreign trade manager of Pu'er Zuxiang Gaoshan Tea Garden Co., Ltd., was full of joy. More and more international tea lovers feel the mellow charm from the mountains of Yunnan from the tiny oriental leaves.

The story of Yunnan’s foreign trade and joint construction of the “Belt and Road” is also written in vibrant fields and busy factory workshops.

In the packaging workshop of Xuebao Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. located in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the company's head Li Yixiang is very busy. This year, the company received more than 50 tons of overseas orders. On the production line, batches of freshly picked white jade mushrooms complete the vacuum packaging "fresh lock" process, which will go to the dining tables of Southeast Asian consumers.

In Huaning County, Yuxi City, the citrus planting base is full of harvest, and workers shuttle between the fruit trees to pick fruit skillfully. After cleaning, grading, packaging and other processes, the citrus is neatly placed in the preservation cold storage. After customs inspection, it will be sent to Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand and other "Belt and Road" co-construction countries. Data shows that in the first eight months of this year, the value of fresh citrus exported by Yuxi Customs reached 547 million yuan, an increase of 159% year-on-year.

Behind the story is the hard work of Yunnan enterprises, and the efforts of relevant departments and systems to implement precise policies.

Simao Customs, which belongs to Kunming Customs, actively guides enterprises to build a benign organic ecological tea garden biological chain to help enterprises optimize processes and brand upgrades; Mangshi Customs has built a coffee quality and safety testing system covering more than 100 parameters, strengthens the construction of laboratory testing capabilities, and implements the "right report, instant review, instant certificate issuance" model and "cloud issuance" and self-service printing functions of certificates of origin. Since the beginning of this year, the Yunnan Provincial Department of Commerce has innovatively established the "Cloud Enterprise Overseas Alliance" mechanism to help enterprises expand their international markets. In the seven months since the establishment of the alliance, more than 700 enterprises have been organized to participate in more than 140 overseas exhibitions, 785 registered enterprises, and a total of more than 300 international market development projects have been applied for. Policy empowerment, service enhancement, cloud products are fragrant in the distance. (Reporter Huang Yixian and Han Chengyuan)

Mohan Port

Inbound tourists grow rapidly

Photo by Zhou Can, a reporter from Mohan Station of China-Laos Railway

"Now, taking the China-Laos Railway train is very fast and convenient to leave the country. I took the summer vacation to Laos and the children all had a great time!" At the Mohan Railway Port, when Ms. Zhang's family from Tianjin entered the country, she was overwhelmed with joy when talking about this outbound trip.

As China's visa-free circle of friends continues to expand, Yunnan tourism continues to heat up, and Southeast Asian countries' tourism popularity remains unabated. In addition, the construction of Mohan International Urban Port is in full swing and the smooth operation of the China-Laos Railway, this summer, the number of people entering and leaving the Mohan Port has increased significantly.

Starting from July 1, as of August 31, the 62-day summer 2025 will end. According to statistics from Mohan Entry and Exit Border Inspection Station, the Mohan Port (highway, railway) has inspected and released more than 350,000 inbound and exit passengers, an increase of 5.9% year-on-year, setting a record high. Among them, more than 160,000 foreign tourists were inspected and released, accounting for more than 46%, an increase of 36.5% year-on-year.

It is reported that during this summer, student flow, tourism flow, and family visit flow are superimposed. Free travel, student travel, family family travel, and silver hair travel have become the main ways of outbound travel, and Chinese traditional cultural travel and folk experience travel have become hot topics for foreigners' inbound travel.

"I like ancient Chinese architecture very much, and there are many Chinese delicacies that make people linger!" Tomaso, a tourist from Italy, praised China's trip after a 7-day trip to China.

In order to effectively deal with the peak of entry and exit traffic during the summer, Mohan Border Inspection Station has continuously adjusted and optimized border inspection service and police force configuration based on the actual situation of large number of people's luggage, many children and elderly people, many customs clearance personnel, and relatively concentrated customs clearance time. It has opened "International Student Channel" and "Tourism Group Channel", and has sent out outside Taiwan to guide police forces to provide timely assistance to inbound and exit passengers. At the same time, relying on the construction of smart ports, it has launched convenient measures such as self-service filling and printing services for foreign entry cards, online pre-declaration systems for cross-border tourism groups, and implemented convenient measures such as dynamic control of port entry and exit traffic, and classified diversion of inbound and exit passengers, effectively ensuring the rapid, safe and smooth customs clearance at the port. (Reporter Zhang Yanqun, Correspondent Huang Yuanfei Thunderstorm)

Free Trade Pilot Zone Kunming Zone

Resolve disputes and help companies to escort

With the deepening of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", Yunnan Province, as the forefront of China's southward opening-up, has increasingly close contacts with South and Southeast Asian countries and regions in the fields of economy, trade, tourism, culture and personnel. However, due to differences in systems, regulations and policies, legal risks and trade frictions have emerged one after another.

In order to solve the pain points such as difficulty in solving cross-border disputes, high cost of overseas arbitration, and unfamiliarity with rules faced by enterprises in the process of "going out", the Kunming area of ​​the China (Yunnan) Free Trade Pilot Zone (Kunming Economic and Technological Development Zone) actively explores the construction of an international legal service complex (Legal, referred to as ILS) for South Asia and Southeast Asia, providing enterprises with all-round, professional and intelligent foreign-related legal support.

In terms of platform construction, Kunming District took the lead in establishing the Kunming International Commercial Arbitration Service Center, widely absorbing domestic and foreign legal experts to establish a talent pool, and providing enterprises with one-stop services such as arbitration, mediation, legal investigation, and professional translation. In terms of mechanism construction, ILS has established an operating mechanism covering the entire process of arbitration rules, legal selection, multilingual services, cross-border trials, and introduced courts, procuratorates, notarization, judicial appraisal and other institutions to expand the chain of foreign-related legal services.

Faced with the problems of "difficulty in cross-border", "difficulty in delivery" and "difficulty in court" in international legal services, the area also cooperated with "Ali Cloud" to develop an online dispute resolution system to realize functions such as electronic delivery of legal documents, online trial opening, and intelligent archiving, which greatly improves efficiency and reduces costs, making "one-click dispute resolution" a reality.

Up to now, the International Commercial Mediation Service Center has handled 46 pre-trial diversion cases, with the subject amount of approximately 183 million yuan; the arbitration center has accepted 20 cases and closed 19 cases. Nearly 50 companies from Kyrgyzstan and Hong Kong and other regions have clearly agreed in the contracts signed with Chinese companies to use the Kunming area as a place of arbitration, reflecting the international community's recognition of the credibility of the platform.

In addition, ILS has established regular contacts with 2,386 Chinese and foreign companies to provide precise legal services. The Litigation Service Center has accepted a total of 2,868 cases, held 2,164 cases, and closed 2,725 cases, effectively safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the enterprise.

A relevant person in charge of the Institutional Innovation Department of Kunming District said that the innovative practices of Kunming District in international legal services not only build a legal escort platform for enterprises to "go global", but also provide "Kunming experience" for my country to participate in the reform of the international commercial dispute resolution mechanism and enhance the discourse power of foreign-related rule of law. (Reporter Zhang Yanqun)

Wenshan Prefecture

Foreign trade is full of vitality

"Customs clearance is getting smoother and foreign trade business is more promising!" In the inspection area of ​​Tianbao International Freight Freight Farm of Malipo, Yang Daibing, head of Malipo Hesen Agricultural Products Development Co., Ltd., saw the orderly clearance of the truck loaded with tropical fruits and said with relief. Today, at Tianbao Port, there are endless tourists in the joint inspection hall, and trucks are lined up in international freight yards, and the sound of loading and unloading in the logistics area is one after another, becoming a vivid portrayal of the vigorous development of foreign trade in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.

In the first seven months of this year, Wenshan Prefecture achieved remarkable results, completing 2.24 billion yuan in foreign trade imports and exports, an increase of 42.8% year-on-year, ranking second in the province. Among them, exports were 470 million yuan, an increase of 14.4%; imports were 1.77 billion yuan, an increase of 52.9%. From the perspective of trade methods, general trade accounts for more than 60%, reaching 1.48 billion yuan, processing trade import and export volume reached 120 million yuan, and cross-border e-commerce trade also achieved net growth.

In terms of port operation, the traffic data of the four ports in the province showed a "three increases and one decrease" trend. From January to July, the total cargo value of Quanzhou ports was 3.647 billion yuan, an increase of 110.84% ​​year-on-year, ranking first in the province. Among them, the Tianbao Port completed a cargo value of 3.645 billion yuan, an increase of 114.2% year-on-year, accounting for the vast majority of the cargo value of the port in Quanzhou. The freight volume at Tianbao Port reached 182,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 70.08%; the inbound and outbound transportation reached 18,900, a year-on-year increase of 20.74%. In addition, the import of durian at Tianbao Port continues to be popular. As of now, the value of durian imports exceeds 3 billion yuan, 9.6 times that of the whole year in 2024. Tianbao Port has become the third largest import port on the mainland.

These achievements are inseparable from Wenshan Prefecture's efforts in port construction and customs clearance facilitation. In terms of infrastructure project construction, the comprehensive designated supervision location of imported grain and fruit customs at Tianbao Port has been accepted on-site acceptance by the General Administration of Customs, the main project of the freight channel project was completed, the main body of the renovation and expansion project of the Dulong Port Joint Inspection Building was completed, and the information improvement and transformation project of Tianpeng Port has also received special funding for provincial port construction. In terms of customs clearance facilitation, Tianbao Customs has conscientiously implemented the 20 measures to optimize customs clearance facilitation, opened a "green channel" for agricultural products and fresh products, implemented a 24-hour appointment customs clearance model, and promoted application models such as "early declaration" and "two-stage access", saving a lot of time and costs for enterprises.

In addition, Wenshan Prefecture's outward-oriented industry has also made breakthroughs. A total of 21 local processing enterprises have been introduced in the province to carry out the processing of inter-market commodities such as nuts, fruits, coffee beans. From January to July, the cumulative production value of on-site processing reached 178 million yuan. (Reporter Huang Peng)

Spread friendship and love

In the process of high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", "hard connectivity" is the skeleton of infrastructure, "soft connectivity" is the context of institutional rules, and "heart connectivity" is the emotional bond and humanistic resonance across national borders. It emphasizes the mutual connection between people's hearts, the integration of cultures, and the connection between emotions, which is the spiritual basis for building a community with a shared future for mankind.

High-quality construction is oriented towards South Asia and Southeast Asia Radiation Center. Yunnan uses cooperation in multiple fields such as education, culture, tourism, sports, and medical care as a carrier to allow the seeds of friendship to take root and sprout in neighboring countries, and to make the fruits of cooperation benefit thousands of households.

Mutual learning of civilizations infiltrate people's hearts

"We not only learn knowledge, but also learn life, love, kindness and unity. Every transnational friendship formed in the spring city of Kunming is a treasure that can be taken away after graduation." Abekong, a Sri Lankan student, gained friendship across national borders during his study at Kunming Medical University. She and her classmates from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and other countries formed a "world family" and learned respect and tolerance through cultural differences.

Educational cooperation is an important cornerstone of "heart connectivity". Through a series of cooperative school-running projects, Yunnan has cultivated a large number of technical and skilled talents for neighboring countries. Yunnan University for Nationalities has opened more than 10 undergraduate majors in South Asia and Southeast Asia's official languages. As a brand project for open education in Yunnan Province, the Lancang-Mekong Vocational Education Alliance has absorbed more than 70 units to integrate, and has continuously explored new paths for "vocational education to go overseas".

In October last year, the 5th Lancang-Mekong Vocational Education Alliance Roundtable was held in Kunming. Representatives from China, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and other Lancang-Mekong Basin countries gathered together to discuss the major plans for vocational education cooperation. Yunnan University for Nationalities and relevant Thai institutions signed an agreement to jointly build the Lancang-Mekong Vocational Education Base (Thailand Base), marking the full realization of the school’s “one school and six countries” school layout.

Yunnan also organized the "People's Blind Dating and Education Tour" South Asia and Southeast Asia education cooperation quality activities, including 10 special activities such as the University Presidents' Forum and Medical Education Alliance Conference. Through these activities, Chinese and foreign schools reached a number of cooperation consensus, signed a number of international agreements, and output a number of vocational education and international Chinese curriculum standards.

Education is a century-old plan, and culture is the foundation of a thousand years. The "Colorful Yunnan·Cultural Peripheral Tour" event, Lancang-Mekong Basin National Cultural Art Festival, China-Myanmar Pak Carnival and other ethnic cultural festivals continue to be held. A number of cultural products such as "Angkor's Smile" have successfully gone abroad... Not only has it demonstrated Yunnan's rich and colorful culture, but it has also become a bridge connecting Yunnan with the emotions of people in neighboring countries.

People's exchanges bring people closer

"Heart connectivity" is not only emotional communication, but also ideological recognition and action coordination. In Yunnan's interactions with neighboring countries, "heart connectivity" is reflected in all aspects.

The China-Laos Railway is both a link of transportation and a channel for cultural exchange. During this year's Spring Festival travel rush, the carriages of the China-Laos Railway were decorated as a mobile stage. In the "Singing All the Road" cultural theme event carriage, the sound of piano and drum beats are intertwined, and Chinese and foreign tourists are immersively feeling the harmonious atmosphere of the Chinese Spring Festival.

The "World Heritage Tour Plan" initiated by Yunnan promotes exchanges and mutual learning through tourism cooperation. Lao tour guide Su Li found that the tourists' focus has changed from "what attractions are here" to "how the heritage here is protected." The "gold content" of a world heritage site is no longer just tourism revenue, but the potential and experience of sustainable development.

The China-Cambodia Cultural Corridor of Angkor International Airport in Siem Reap, Cambodia, reshapes the scene of civilization dialogue with innovative models, attracting hundreds of thousands of international tourists to visit. Cambodian tour guide Li Shunlong transformed into a "voluntary publicity officer" and enthusiastically promoted it on social media. He also wrote "Traveling in Yunnan to see Angkor" on the tour guide flag.

In the face of disaster, "Since the Unicom" is even more precious. After a strong earthquake occurred in Myanmar in March this year, China's Yunnan rescue medical team arrived 18 hours after the earthquake, becoming the first international rescue team to arrive. As a translation volunteer, Myanmar student Zhang Yue built a language bridge for rescue workers and the affected people in the ruins and tents to convey warmth and hope.

The most moving chapter of "Heart Connection" is often written in the details of folk communication. Laotian youth Chen Leyang studied railway technology at Kunming Railway Vocational and Technical College and will become the "teacher seed" of the China-Laos Railway in the future; Vietnamese students carried out "red study" in Yunnan along Ho Chi Minh's footsteps, touching the temperature of history in the aroma of bread. The stories of these ordinary people are a microcosm of the folk exchanges between Yunnan and neighboring countries. They are not only learners and travelers, but also messengers of friendship and bridges of culture. Their existence has given the grand narratives such as "Bobo friendship", "China-Laos friendship" and "China-Vietnam Brothers" specific emotional carriers.

If the hearts are connected, the road will be wider, the emotions will be stronger, and the future will be more promising. With the deepening of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", Yunnan will continue to give full play to its geographical and cultural advantages, so that "heart connectivity" will move from concept to practice, from official to folk, and from activities to daily life, and then drive "hard connectivity" and "soft connectivity". Jointly draw concentric circles with neighboring countries that are in harmony with the people and make Yunnan's contribution to building a community with a shared future for mankind. (Reporter Zhu Hai, Yao Chengcheng)

Pu'er College

National universities to educate new talents

In September, Pu'er College welcomed freshmen to enter the school, and the youthful faces made the campus rejuvenate and vibrant. Among them, international students from Lancang-Mekong River Basin countries such as Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam show themselves and their youth on campus and in classrooms, becoming a vivid footnote to Pu'er College's internationalized school run.

"Since Pu'er College began to recruit international students in 2006, it has listed international school management as one of the school's development strategies and included it in the school's medium- and long-term development plan. It has now become a business card for Pu'er College's characteristic school management." Li Chunzhong, Dean of ASEAN College of Pu'er College, introduced that in the new semester, there are 156 international students who have registered for admission, including 140 from Laos, 3 from Thailand, 8 from Myanmar, 3 from Cambodia, 1 from Bangladesh, and 1 from Vietnam; there are more than 60 students from the 2025 preparatory classes and more than 40 students from the 2024 preparatory majors are undergoing admission procedures one after another.

Deepen open school management to promote mutual understanding among the people, Pu'er College fully utilizes its location advantages, accelerates the construction of a "national university", and deepens international exchanges and cooperation in Lancang-Mekong Basin education through international cooperation, integration of industry and education, platform construction and other measures. In particular, seizing the opportunities brought by the opening of the China-Laos Railway, actively serving and integrating into the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the construction of Yunnan Province's education radiation center for South Asia and Southeast Asia has become an important talent training base for serving the industrial development of the Lancang-Mekong River Basin.

According to reports, the school has successively established cooperation with more than 10 Lancang-Mekong Basin universities, including the Royal University of Chiang Rai, Laos National University, Yangon Foreign Studies University in Myanmar, and Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and innovated the joint training model of "2 1 1" and "3 1". It has trained more than 1,000 talents in the digital industry, smart agriculture, and cultural tourism industries, including 40 high-level tea and coffee technical talents overseas, and more than 650 trainees and students from Lancang-Mekong Basin universities. Pu'er College also jointly built China's first "Belt and Road Digital Industry College" with Laos Sufanfun University and Neusoft Education Technology Group. The "Lan-Mekong Education Cooperation (Pu'er) Forum" and "South Asia and Southeast Asia College Student Art Exhibition" were included in the Yunnan Province's "People's Blind Dating Education Tour" boutique project, and the "Northern Thai Chinese Speech Competition" project was included in the Yunnan Province's series of activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Thailand by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The opening of the China-Laos Railway provides more convenience and greater development space for schools to carry out international exchanges. Pu'er College offers three non-common language majors: Lao, Burmese and Thai. It responds to talent needs, innovates training models, and explores the training of non-common languages ​​and international compound talents. Graduates are highly favored in the Southeast Asian employment market. Among the 2024 graduates, 2,079 students have been employed in the areas along the China-Laos Railway, accounting for 65.91% of employed graduates.

"Give full play to the advantages of national universities, innovate talent training, enhance cultural exchanges, and promote people-to-people communication." Li Chunzhong said that Pu'er College has continuously improved the mechanism for the training of compound international talent cooperation and built a curriculum system of "language courses cultural courses professional courses practical courses". Relying on the advantages of geopolitical and climate environment, it has explored a new model of talent training for the "five identifications" of international students in the Lancang-Mekong Basin to develop identity, education identity, life identity, cultural identity, and value identity in the training of international students in the Lancang-Mekong Basin, and promote cultural exchanges and international cooperation. (Reporter Shen Hao)

"Bright Tour" project

Free medical consultations abroad bring light

Members of the Yunnan medical team of "Bright Travel" conducted examinations on local patients. Photo provided by Yunnan People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries

Preoperative preparation, anesthesia, making corneal incisions, isolating and dilating the anterior chamber, phacoemulsification, implanting an intraocular lens, closing the incision... At 17:20 local time on August 19, local time, with the last cataract surgery being completed at King's Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the 2025 medical team of the "Xin Unicom Yunnan Tour Sri Lanka's 'Bright Tour'" project was successfully concluded.

"Transport materials, arrange medical equipment, patient screening, preoperative preparation, performing surgery, case analysis, teaching medical care..." This medical team was composed of medical staff from the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University. All members of the medical team did not stop for almost a moment, and completed 100 cataract surgeries with high quality in 5 days.

"Sri Lanka has strong ultraviolet rays, high cataract incidence, and heavy degree, and expensive surgery. Many patients cannot seek medical treatment in time, resulting in worsening of the condition and higher blindness rate than in other regions." Zhao Jianfeng, a member of the medical team and an ophthalmologist at the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, said that this "Bright Tour" project not only helped local cataract patients eliminate eye diseases, but also promoted medical workers from both sides to deeply exchange experiences and conveyed light and friendship.

"After removing the gauze for the patients, we truly felt the joy of opening their eyes, and some even came up to shake hands and hug them." At the eye-brightening ceremony, guests from China and Sri Lanka jointly unveiled the gauze in front of the patients, and the scene of the patients seeing the light again became an unforgettable memory of the medical team members.

Yunnan medical teams have traveled to Sri Lanka for three consecutive years to carry out free cataract surgery to bring light to patients. Since 2016, the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University has carried out 10 "Bright Tours" activities in Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and other countries, and has completed a total of 1,507 ophthalmic surgeries.

Since 2011, Yunnan Province has organized 32 batches of Yunnan medical teams to Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and other countries to carry out the "Bright Tour" activity, aiming to convey light, love and friendship, eliminate eye diseases for local cataract patients, and at the same time exchange experiences with other medical staff and learn from each other. Up to now, the "Go to Bright" activity has relieved the pain and lit the light for 5,800 cataract patients in various countries.

The "Going Tour" activity has promoted the improvement of medical conditions in countries such as Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam, provided them with medical assistance and emergency medical assistance, brought bright hope to more cataract patients, and was highly praised and affirmed by the local government, enhanced China's international image and influence, and enhanced the friendship between China and its "Belt and Road" partners. (Reporter Chen Xinlong)

Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences

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