Original title: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation has achieved remarkable results in the past five years, looking forward to the new “Golden Five Years” Source: CCTV News
Today (9th) afternoon, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin presided over a regular press conference. A reporter asked: Yesterday, the Sixth Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held in Chongqing. Can you introduce the relevant situation? What is China’s comment on the Lancang-Mekong cooperation?
In response, Wang Wenbin said that on June 8, the sixth Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held in Chongqing. State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Myanmar Foreign Minister Winner Maung Lun presided over the meeting as co-chairs. Lao Foreign Minister Sharon Sai, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bra Sokun, Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tun Tun, and Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pei Qing Shan attended the meeting.
The Lancang-Mekong cooperation is a new type of sub-regional cooperation mechanism for the six countries in the basin to discuss, build and share. It implements the principle of good-neighborly and friendly cooperation, adheres to the cooperation purpose of development first, practices the concept of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, and upholds the original aspiration of people-oriented cooperation It has developed rapidly in just five years and has become one of the most dynamic emerging cooperation mechanisms in the subregion, showing the following three characteristics:
First, there are many results. In the context of the spread of the epidemic, the six Lancang-Mekong countries earnestly implemented the consensus of the third leaders’ meeting and the fifth foreign ministers’ meeting, implemented the “Lanmei Cooperation Five-Year Action Plan,” vigorously carried out anti-epidemic cooperation, and jointly promoted economic recovery. Deepen people-to-people exchanges. The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation has maintained a high-level development trend and has achieved positive results in various fields. It has played an important role in promoting economic development in various countries, improving people’s livelihood, protecting the environment, intensifying cultural exchanges, advancing water resources cooperation and regional economic integration.
The second is the actual mechanism.The six Lancang-Mekong countries have formed the Lancang-Mekong model of “development-first, pragmatic and efficient, and project-oriented”. As a family”LanMekong culture has created a coordinated development pattern. The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Special Fund has supported more than 500 projects that benefit people’s livelihoods in the fields of education, health, women, and poverty reduction. The Chinese loan supports the six countries to carry out more than 40 large-scale infrastructure and capacity cooperation projects such as interconnection, airport power stations, and industrial parks. In 2020, the trade volume between China and the five Mekong countries rose to US$322.9 billion, and the trade volume of agricultural products reached US$24 billion, both achieving a year-on-year growth of about 12%.
The third is strong motivation. The meeting passed consensus documents such as the “Joint Statement on Strengthening Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of Lancang-Mekong Countries”, “Initiatives on Deepening Local Cooperation in Lancang-Mekong Countries” and “Joint Statement on Deepening Cooperation in Traditional Medicine under the Framework of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation”. . The Chinese side also distributed the “List of Intentions for Cooperation between China’s Relevant Provinces, Autonomous Regions and Municipalities and the Local Governments of Mekong Countries” and the “Preliminary Measures for China to Promote the Linkage between the Lancang-Mekong River Economic Development Belt and the “New Land-Sea Corridor”” and other lists. The six countries agreed to continue to deepen anti-epidemic cooperation, jointly promote post-epidemic recovery, expand water resources, local pragmatic cooperation, promote friendship between the people, and jointly maintain the strong momentum of Lancang-Mekong cooperation to achieve mutual benefit and common prosperity.
Wang Wenbin said that looking forward to the future, China is willing to work with the five countries to always uphold the Lanmei spirit of “drinking the same river, and destiny is closely linked”, further deepen good-neighborly friendship and pragmatic cooperation, and actively build the Lancang-Mekong flow area economic development belt and continue its construction.LanA community of shared future for the Mekong countries has opened a new “golden five years” of Lancang-Mekong cooperation. (Headquarters CCTV reporter Huang Huixin and Yang Yi)
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