KUNMING--11 Jun--PRNewswire-Asia-AsiaNet/InfoQuest
The 17th Kunming Import & Export Fair and The 2nd South Asian Countries Commodity Fair, which are sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, have drawn the curtain on June 6, 2009, at the Kunming International Convention and Exhibition Center. Meanwhile, GMS Economy Corridor
Week was also held by the Ministry of Commerce, People's Government of Yunnan Province, and Asian Development Bank. These activities fully embody China's active and pragmatic posture of paying great attention to the Southeast Asia region's economic cooperation.
Due to the geographic location, Yunnan is an important place in China to develop foreign trade. Sun Xiaohong, Secretary-General of Kunming Import & Export Fair organizing committee and Director-General, Department of Commerce, said that Yunnan was the only way to combine the East, Southeast and South
Asian regions as well as link the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. The strategic station is irreplaceable, and the combination of China and the South Asian market via Yunnan will form an emerging market and significantly impact the world economy.
Yunnan is the only province adjacent to so many countries of ASEAN and has the longest land boundary and the most landways to the GMS and ASEAN countries. When the west route of the Pan-Asian Railway and the channel of China and Myanmar through land and water transport opens, the transportation cost will be further lessened and the hinterland will be further enlarged.
Yunnan also possesses outstanding advantages of historic culture, infrastructure and industry structure as well as years of regional economic cooperation experiences.
In the current situation of financial crisis, booths at the Kunming Import & Export Fair exceed 2200, while those of the South Asian Countries Commodity Fair rises to over 300, covering various industries like costumes, mining, pharmacy, craftwork, bijouterie, information and tourism services, etc. Gu Zhaoxi, Vice-Governor of Yunnan Province and Li Jiming, Deputy Director also attended GMS activities. Mr. Li Jiming stated that it was expected Yunnan would play the irreplaceable role of enhancing the opening of the regional
markets and the further construction of China-GMS and China-ASEAN economic cooperation.
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SOURCE Ministry of Commerce, People's Government of Yunnan Province
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