Report: China's Participation in Greater Mekong Subregion Cooperation
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Xinhua, December 17, 2011
7. Health
China will continue to enhance health cooperation with the other GMS countries under the current cooperation mechanisms and strive to enrich such cooperation. It will continue to conduct pilot cooperation projects on AIDS and malaria prevention and control at the China-Myanmar, China-Laos, and China-Vietnam border areas, and gradually increase the geographic coverage and deepen such cooperation. China will strive for the continuous development of the projects of Dengue fever prevention and control at the China-Myanmar, China-Laos and China-Vietnam border areas. It will continue to step up its cooperation with the other GMS countries on setting up a mechanism for epidemic information exchange and sharing, and expand the cooperation to such fields as maternity and child health and chronic non-infectious diseases. China will actively participate in the work of the health subgroup of the human resources working team, step up inter-departmental and inter-regional coordination and cooperation at home, and comprehensively promote the level of health cooperation with the other GMS countries.
8. Tourism
The Chinese government will continue to support and promote GMS cooperation on tourism on the national level, and beef up communication and coordination. It will further improve cooperation mechanisms and raise efficiency. China will step up the development of tourism infrastructure and human resources, push forward the execution of the projects led by China, actively promote GMS tourism development, cultivate an integrated GMS tourism destination, and advance GMS tourism facilitation by actively studying the possibility of a single GMS tourism visa system. The Chinese government will support and give guidance to the participation of Yunnan and Guangxi in GMS tourism cooperation and development. Yunnan will seek to do a good job in tourism cooperation with the north of Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand and the whole of Myanmar. Guangxi will accelerate the development and construction of the Pan-Beibu Bay tourism region and the China-Vietnam cooperation on the "two tourism corridors and one tourism region" , and push forward the implementation of the development plan for the Weizhou Island Tourism District of Beihai City.
9. Trade and Investment
While implementing the Strategic Framework for the Next Ten Years of the GMS Program (2012-2022) and the Plan of Action for Trade and Transportation Facilitation, China will do its best to advance the development of the economic corridor together with the other GMS countries and the ADB. The Chinese government will strengthen policy coordination with the other GMS countries to promote mutual investment, and strive for practical outcomes in such key areas as port administration coordination, improvement of inspection and quarantine mechanisms, formulation of a subregional trade and logistics strategy, and enhancement of trade facilitation mechanisms of the subregion and its member countries. China will push forward the full and effective implementation of the CBTA, actively promote the development of cross-border economic cooperation areas, so as to further raise the level of trade facilitation and the ability to attract investment along the GMS economic corridor and comprehensively uplift trade and investment level of the subregion. Meanwhile, China will step up capability building by providing more training opportunities to government officials, especially law enforcement officers at border ports, sharing experience and practices in the various fields of trade facilitation with the other GMS countries, and encouraging the business community to participate in the GMS cooperation in greater depth through organizing various business exchange activities.
10. Drug Control and Crop Substitution
China will further enhance cooperation with the other GMS countries in the field of drug prohibition, crop substitution and alternative development, further improve the cooperation mechanisms, and steadily increase its support to these countries in the form of personnel training and assistance in kind. China will increase its financial and policy support for crop substitution, and press ahead with the development of the demonstration projects, so as to play a positive role in ensuring sustained, healthy and all-round development of crop substitution and reducing illegal opium planting in the subregion.
11. Science and Technology
Science and technology is an important field of the GMS cooperation. China will continue to use the existing mechanisms and channels to further enhance its science and technology exchanges and cooperation with the other GMS countries through, among other channels, science and technology cooperation projects ,training sessions and seminars. The Chinese government will support the effort of Yunnan in establishing an international technology transfer center and enhancing ability to transfer technology to the other GMS countries in such fields as clean energy, energy efficiency, health and agriculture.
The "China-ASEAN Science and Technology Partnership Program" to be started at the end of 2011 will take science and technology cooperation between China and the other GMS countries as a priority to promote and support.
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