The Shanghai Coopera-tion Organization Sum-mit in Qingdao, which concluded with “the most fruitful outcomes” in the history of the organiza-tion, will be a “new land-mark” in the organiza-tion’s development, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said.

The summit endorsed the China-proposed ini-tiative of building a com-munity of a shared future for mankind, which helps promote the common development and prosper-ity of the region and the world as well, Wang said.

Xi’s proposals con-form to “the needs of the SCO development, the common interests of countries throughout the world as well as the trend of times in the world’s de-

velopment and progress”, Wang said.

“The summit produced a success in demonstrat-i ng the un i ty among member countries as well as leaders’ will and com-mitment in multilateral-ism and cooperation,” said Luigi Gambardella, president of ChinaEU, a business-led international

association based in Brus-sels.

In a speech delivered at the plenary session, Xi called for joint efforts to build an open world economy and reject “self-centered, shortsighted and closed-door policies”.

Jon R. Taylor, profes-sor of political science at the University of St.

T h o m a s i n H o u s t o n , Texas, said, “While Xi projected calm, creative statesmanship at the sum-mit and was able to proj-ect a win-win consensus, by contrast Trump looked l ike a man out of his league.”

“I liked that he (Xi) linked China’s Confucian heritage to the spirit of promoting a new type of international relations, the common good and harmony — a harmony found in the ‘Shanghai Spirit’ that fosters mu-tual respect, all-around cooperation and common development.”

Maria Guleva, a dep-uty professor of the Fac-ulty of Oriental Studies at Saint Petersburg Univer-sity, said that the theories Xi proposed on innova-tion, coordination, the en-

vironment, openness and shared development show that China is undertaking its international obliga-tion as a global power.

B.R. Deepak, a profes-sor at the Centre for Chi-nese and South East Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, said institution-building makes the SCO one of the most successful multilateral institutions in the world, a new model for regional economic and security cooperation and an innovation in interna-tional theory and practice.

Christopher Bovis, professor of international business law at the Uni-versity of Hull in Eng-land, said that Xi offered a credible solution to the threat of trade wars and protectionism.

(China Daily)

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Liu Qilin: CSA Expo more open and international

High speed railways make Yunnan more accessible

SCO results earn praise worldwide

The First Seminar for Me-dia Officials and Journalists from Mekong Countries kicked off in Kunming, Yunnan Province on June 12, with the theme of “one river, one family”.

Hosted by Yunnan Daily Press Group(YDPG), the nine-day training seminar drew in 17 media delegates from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. In the coming days, the seminar partici-pants will, together with the (YDPG) reporters, take Chinese high-speed trains, witness the 5th China-South Asia Exposition, visit the border areas, and exchange extensively in Kunming and Lincang.

“In recent years, the Yun-nan media has exchanged a lot and cooperated well with the Mekong media, bringing closer the peoples’ hearts in the region and contributing to the Lancang-Mekong cooperation(LMC). The YDPG is a typical exam-ple.”

Li Qian, deputy head of the Publicity Department of

the CPC Yunnan Provincial Committee and director of the Information Office of Yunnan Government, said at the seminar opening, adding the seminar is conducive to information sharing and mutual understanding in the LM region.

The seminar marks the first time for Yunnan to host a training program for media delegates from all the six LM countries. Via the training seminar, media delegates from the countries will act as speakers and promoters for the Lancang-Mekong cooperation and seeders of the LM friend-ship.

By Zhang Ruogu, Zhu Dongran, Wang Shixue

(Yunnan Gateway)

“The China-South Asia Expo (CSA Expo) will be more open and more in-ternational this year,” Liu Qilin, director of the Yun-nan International Expo Af-fairs Bureau, said on May 22. According to Liu, the 5th CSA Expo, the biggest ever, will provide 19 pavil-ions, about 8,500 standard booths and 190,000 square metres of exhibition space. It will also include 16 inter-national events and attract more than 3,000 exhibitors. In addition to the two image pavilions for the country of honour, Afghanistan, and the featured guest country, Myanmar, there will be seven overseas pavilions, with foreign exhibitors ac-counting for more than 40

percent of the total exhibi-tion space.

As confirmed, the 5th CSA Expo will see the participation of companies from 52 countries and re-gions, 31 mainland Chinese provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. “We will do our utmost to set up bilateral and multilateral platforms for exchanges and cooperation among all parties in terms of com-modities, capital, technol-ogy, information and other resources. We are going to make fresh contributions to the country by actively serving and integrating into China’s Belt and Road Ini-tiative,” said Liu recently.

What is the best way to present an innovative CSA Expo? Liu said that while adhering to the entire market model that covers the trade in commodities, services and investments, this year’s CSA Expo will be big, comprehensive and professional. Professional pavilions will account for more than half of the 19 pa-vilions, and will be arranged to further promote the flow of commodities, capital and human resources.

Liu believes that the CSA Expo will become an increasingly strong brand year by year, and will have more wonderful stories to tell in the future.

By Han Chengyuan(Yunnan Daily)

Seminar opens for Mekong media officials, journalists

By the end of June, Li Shifang will move into a 450-square-metre home in the tourist town of Guan-glong. He is a farmer, but he is now looking forward to living in town. “When I settle down, I will run a bed and breakfast. The environ-ment is getting better and better around the Fuxian Lake, so I believe business will be good,” he said with excitement and anticipation.

Li Shifang is a villager from Guanglong Commu-nity, in Yunnan Province’s Yuxi City. His family has been living next to Fuxian Lake for generations. In his memory, the lake used to be crystal clear, and is an ideal place for swimming and having fun.

To protect the lake from being polluted, Yuxi City has taken a series of measures involving the relocation of 28,000 people. Li Shifang’s farmland has been turned into wetlands. In February of last year, his family com-pletely moved out of their lakeside house.

(Xinhua)

Farmer supports protection of Fuxian Lake

Laos enters its rainy season in June. While the abundant precipitation mitigates the summer heat, it also increas-es the risk of flooding.

“Too much rainfall will raise the water level of the Mekong River and its tributaries in Laos, causing floods, mudslides and other damages,” said Mr. Khan-many Khounphonh, the Director-General of Depart-ment of Meteorology and Hydrology at the Lao Minis-try of National Resource and Environment.

“I used to be worried during the rainy season, but no more this year,” the Lao official noted on June 4. With deepened China-Laos cooperation in meteorol-ogy and water conservation under the Lancang-Mekong cooperation, Laos’s ability to manage water resources and prevent natural disasters has improved.

“I no longer need to take a meter to the river to measure the water-level in the rain,” said director of the Lao National Water Infor-mation Center. At the center, staff were monitor the level of the Mekong River in real time, collecting hydrological data every hour.

(People’s Daily)

China, Laos cooperate in

water conservation

The seminar opening in Kunming Photo by Zhu Dongran

Chinese president Xi Jinping speaks at the SCO summit in Qingdao City on June 10, 2018. Xinhua photo

It is an early summer morning. Liu Baohua, a villager in Yunnan’s Puzhehei Town, has al-ready made his first deal of the day. Swinging a long whip and humming a folksong, he is taking a group of tourists in his cart to Xianrendong Vil-lage.

The village is at the core of the Puzhehei Na-tional Scenic Spot. In the past, the villagers fished and farmed for a living, and the average annual income was only a mea-gre 300 yuan in 1993.

On December 28 ,

2 0 1 6 , t h e N a n n i n g -Kunming High Speed Railway, which stops at Puzhehei, was opened to traffic. Having ushered in “the era of high-speed rail”, the scenic spot now attracts a growing num-ber of tourists. “Now I earn 400 to 500 yuan a day by taking tourists in my horse cart,” Liu Bao-hua said cheerfully.

The railway is a new artery for China’s na-tional economy. Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, Yunnan has also advanced the building of new railways.

In 1987, construction began on the electrifi-cation transformation of the Fenghuangshan-Kunming sec t ion o f Guiyang-Kunming Rail-way. In the 21st century, Yunnan proposed to build a network of “eight in te rprovinc ia l h igh speed railroads and five international high speed railways”. To date, Yun-nan bullet trains have served 17.5 million pas-sengers. And Kunming is now connected with 17 Chinese major cities in the east and north.

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