english.yunnan.cnThe Pioneer Sunday, October 16, 2016YUNNAN DAILY PRESS GROUP english.yunnan.cnThe Pioneer Sunday, October 16, 2016YUNNAN DAILY PRESS GROUPenglish.yunnan.cnThe Pioneer Sunday, October 16, 2016YUNNAN DAILY PRESS GROUPYUNNAN DAILY PRESS GROUP The Pioneer Vol.36 Wednesday, July 5, 2017 english.yunnan.cn

Yunnan is becoming more international: US Consul-general

Yunnan opens China's first lawyer’s office

in Cambodia

Construction of China-Laos Railway proceeds smoothly

As of this July, Raymond Greene, the US Con-

sul-general to Chengdu, has been in southwest China for nearly three years since tak-ing the position in Septem-ber 2014. He has promoted exchanges between the US and Yunnan in the areas of trade, culture, education and tourism. He loves Yun-nan food, is fond of ethnic minority culture and enjoys visiting the World War II Museums.

“I’m ver y pleased to return to beautiful Spring City. The US Consulate General to Chengdu paid g r e a t a t t e n t i o n t o t h e South and Southeast Asia Commodity Expo and the Investment Fair(SSACEIF). We think it is an effective platform to learn about the Yunnan economy and seek more in-depth cooperation for both sides.” Raymmond Greene said.

Greene said that great progress has been made between Yunnan and the US in increasing tourism and expanding trade and investment in the past three years. With the implemen-tation of the US 10-year visa policy and a number of direct flights opened in the Southwest region, Yun-nan people can enjoy more convenient service when traveling to the US. The Consulate General arranges for US enterprises to seek investment opportunities in Yunnan. “From this Janu-ary, consumers can go to a Starbucks and buy Yunnan coffee. I think this is a big breakthrough.”

He recalled the first time

he came Yunnan 16 years ago, and said affectionately that he has a special passion for Yunnan. “My impression of southwest China started in Yunnan where there is beautiful natural scenery, diversified culture, and a friendship established with the Flying Tigers over 70 years ago.”

He said that in the past three years he has wit -nessed the rapid growth of southwest China. It only takes 2 hours to go from Guiyang to Kunming by high-speed rail train. Yun-nan has become an impor-tant window to South and Southeast Asia. Tibet and Chongqing are developing rapidly.

“Yunnan’s international-ization process has been ac-celerating. New business op-portunities generated from it have received attention from American enterprises.” In his eyes, there is still big potential and space for co-operation between Yunnan and the US in the areas of communication, non-gov-ernment culture exchanges, the pension industry, logis-tics, environment protec-tion, modern agricultural construction and media.

“Yunnan is great. I am reluctant to leave,” Ray-mond Greene said. When he goes back to the US, he will publicize Yunnan and southwest China to encourage more Americans to come for tourism and to invest. “I will make every effort to contribute to Si-no-US relationships.”

(Wang Jing, Li Hong-feng)

During the recent 52nd Paris Air Show, Ruili

Airlines reached an in-depth cooperative agreement with Boeing Company. The two parties officially signed a memorandum for 20 brand new Boeing 737-MAX air-planes with a total value of 2.2 billion US dollars.

The senior vice-presi-

dent of Global Sales Boeing C om m e rc i a l A i r p l an e s said that in the future the 737-MAX of Boeing will provide important support to the upcoming domestic and regional network air routes of Ruili Airlines.

On the 22nd of June, a brand new Boeing 737-800 passenger airplane flew to Kunming Changshui Airport from Seattle. It is

reported that the new air-plane will be used in the busy summer travel season and be put into service on upcoming new routes.

R u i l i A i r l i n e s w a s established in 2014. The company has opened 28 air routes by this June and flies 76 flights a day cov-ering 27 cities. The fleet is comprised of 14 Boeing aircrafts.

Environmental protection benefits Tibetan villagers

in National Park

Chinese media's influence growing in 21st century

Ruili Airline and Boeing to carry out comprehensive cooperation

In the early morning a long the L ancang

River, the mist had just dispersed and a loud roar erupted on the con-struction site of Lancang Grand Bridgeof Yuxi-Mo-han Railway with ma-chines running. It was a busy construction scene.

Yuxi-Mohan Railway is part of China-Laos Railway project. China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group(CTCE) has un-dertaken the construction of 8 bridges along the railway scattered along a stretch of 350 kilometers from Yuxi to Jinghong. Because it crosses the Lancang River, environ-mental protection re-quirements are very strict for the construction.

Over 20,000 workers on the railway

Since the construc-tion began, over 20,000 builders have been work-ing day and night on the 24 main projects along the railway. Recently, the journalist came to the construction site of the Mohan Passenger Station, which has begun the subgrade filling phase. About a 30 kilometre long subgrade surface filling is nearing completion for

the Mengla Station. Mohan Stat ion i s

3500 metres long and 400 metres wide and occupies an area of more than 1.9 million square me-tres, which makes it the largest station along the China-Laos international channel. The station will be equipped with both domestic and internation-al train rails.

Dai artists work on brocade accessories

In a Dai village near Jinghong Station on the Yuxi-Mohan Railway, Yu Er Shuai, a 54-year-old Dai artist and a represent-ative of the provincial in-tangible culture heritage carriers, is working on brocade accessories with a few partners from the Dai Brocade Cooperative.

“When the railway is completed, clients can travel from Kunming to my home in four hours. We don’t need to worry about the market for our products.” Yu Er Shuai said that in the future she can take the train and carry the Dai brocade to Thailand to sell it. The construction of the railway not only makes it convenient for people to travel, but will also be an expressway for economic development.

Move forward between innovation and inheritance

Traditional media are already feeling the shift.

The international re-launch of CGTN—China Global Television Network—marks a turning point in international broadcast journalism. The network, still known within China as CCTV (China Cen-tral Television), is expanding its international presence.

From the exposé of the AIDS “epidemic” in Central China’s Henan province to the mass corruption case in Chenzhou, Central China’s Hunan province, some of China’s largest scandals in re-cent years have been uncov-ered as a result of ferocious investigative journalism. In contrast to the adversarial Western “muckraking” mod-el, this so-called “watchdog journalism” works closely with the government.

As China continues its expansion across the inter-

national media landscape, some of the principles of Chinese journalism are also being reflected in the West-ern media.

China has long encour-aged what it cal ls “con-structive journalism”. Better known in the West as “solu-tions-focused journalism”, it is the idea that journalists should move beyond the dis-torted world view presented by breaking news, and focus on what is working in the world. The BBC explicitly endorsed this positive ap-proach in 2016.

Many of the disruptive ideas emerging in China’s “new media” are world lead-ing. Mark Zuckerberg is not only picking up vocabulary on his visits to Beijing—some of new features of Facebook and WhatsApp are also les-sons from ubiquitous Chi-nese social media platforms

such as WeChat and Weibo.This transformational

shift is only just getting start-ed. Last year, China moved up two places in Portland’s SoftPower 30—a ranking of countries’ soft power, based on a composite index meas-uring engagement, culture, government, education digi-tal and enterprise.

As C h i na c ont i nu e s to invest in its soft power assets, we can expect it to rise further up the ranks. Its media will be a key part of this. As the driver of a new era of globalization, inter-national norms in media and reporting will continue to flow from West to East. Businesses and governments will need to learn Chinese. And learn fast.

(Richard King, consult-ant at Portland Communica-tions. Adapted from China Daily)

Recently, the journalist learned that the Cam-

bodia branch of Yunnan Weizhen Lawyer’s office, was approved by Cambodia Ministry of Commerce and received a Business License on the 19th of June. This is the first Chinese Lawyer’s Office in Cambodia.

A c c o r d i n g t o H e Xifeng, vice director of the Yunnan Lawyers Associa-tion’s South and Southeast Asia Legal Service Center, with the advancement of the Belt and Road Initia-tive, more and more Chi-nese enterprises are going to Southeast Asia to get involved in local economic

construction and devel-opment. They are facing various kinds of legal risks and need services provid-ed by professional Chinese Lawyers Office. There are demand for such service as soon after branches were set up in Myanmar and Laos, Chinese enterprises and local people came to Weizhen to seek legal ser-vices.

The Cambodian branch of Yunnan Weizhen Law-yer’s Office has 19 practic-ing lawyers by far. The firm is the third Yunnan law firm established in South-east Asia following branch offices in Laos and Myan-mar. A Vietnam branch is in the planning process.

The 2017 Myanmar Jour-nalist Workshop opened

in Kunming on June 26th. It will last for eleven days and be conducted in both Kun-ming and Beijing.

The workshop are at-tended by 20 journalists from 19 media outlets in-cluding Myanmar People’s Age Online Media, SHADE Media Group and Narin Jara News. The workshop ac-tivities will be conducted in both Kunming and Beijing.

During the workshop, Myanmar Media workers and Chinese government of f i c i a l s w i l l e xch ange thoughts on topics concern-ing media in both countries, including the Belt and Road Initiative, the bilateral rela-tionship between China(-Yunnnan) and Myanmar, global media development trends and international media cooperation. In Kun-ming, workshop participants have already visited the Yunnan Daily Press Group, Yunnan Broadcasting and TV Station, and attended the Yunnan-Myanmar Media Cooperation Round-table Conference. In Beijing, they will visit the State Council Information Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and China Journalists Association.

Wang Dongmei, Secre-tary of the China Journalists Association Secretariat, said at the opening ceremony that as information dissem-inator, reflector of public opinion and soul commu-nicator, media plays an important role in promot-ing mutual understanding between the two peoples. The Myanmar Journalists

Workshop is an important measure to strengthen and promote communication be-tween China and Myanmar media. She hopes that both China and Myanmar can deepen training cooperation and promote bilateral media exchanges.

“Media is an important cooperat ive component between China and Myan-mar,” said Latt Latt Soe, joint secretary of Myanmar Jour-nalists Association. “Myan-mar journalists will learn a lot from this workshop. I hope that China can provide more exchange and training opportunities for Myanmar media personnel in the fu-ture.”

The head of the Yunnan Journalists Association said that to promote the ex-change of media and mutual trust, to build consensus and jointly build and share the Belt and Road was a com-mon aspiration and solemn duty of China and Myanmar media. The Myanmar Jour-nalists Workshop provides an important platform for media dialogue and prac-

tical cooperation between China and Myanmar. The China and Myanmar me-dia cooperation model has begun to show early results. Expansion and deepening exchanges and cooperation is promising for the future.

T h e 2 0 1 7 My a n m a r Journalists Workshop was sponsored by the China Journal is ts Associat ion and the Yunnan Journalist Association and hosted by the South and Southeast International Journalists Training Center, jointly established by the Yunnan D ai ly Press Group and Yunnan Normal University. The Myanmar Journalists Workshop was launched in 2015 and this year is the third session. The Director of the Myanmar Journalists Association and 40 media workers f rom nearly 30 media outlets in Myanmar participated in the work-shop, which has effectively promoted communication and understanding between China and Myanmar. It has attracted widespread atten-tion and praise.

China-Myanmar media exchanges promote

Pauk-Phaw friendship Dai Zhenhua

Hu Xiaorong

Liu Ziyu

Yang Chunping

Ma Zhe

The Kunming International Conference and Exhibition Center and the Dounan Flower Market were filled with fresh flowers and crowded with people recently. The 18th Chi-na Kunming International Flora Exhibition was held at the two sites simultaneously. 350 booths have been set up at the main exhibition site. 168 domestic and foreign exhibitors participated and over 1500 species of fresh cut flowers were displayed here.

(Photo by Li Qiuming)

Jianshui Purple Pottery is a local traditional art work

in Yunnan with a long histo-ry. In recent years, with the support of government at all

levels, and the hard work of pottery craftsmen, the popu-larity of Jianshui pottery has increased significantly.

Wanyao Village is the birthplace of Jianshui Pur-ple Pottery. Along the two

sides of a hundred metres long street, hundreds of pottery-making and pot-tery-selling businesses are gathered. Li Xin was born in the 1990’s and his studio is above a store. His works are sought after by many buyers because of the unique col-ours and texture.Li Xin said, “Jianshui pottery is made from five colors of clay with a variety of shades. I hope that our artwork can maintain the earlier simple impression and integrate with a young and lively atmosphere.”

Li Jun is a craftsman who carefully studied the history of purple pottery and established his own pot-tery museum. “The purpose of establishing a museum is to salute the past grand-masters. The previous works

also give me abundant food for thought.”

Although the works of young craftsmen have differ-ent characteristics than tradi-tional objects, they also said that it is only with the seeds from the older generations that innovation for Jianshui Pottery can be achieved. “In technique, we should carry forward the characteristics of purple pottery while in thinking, we should have our own innovation.”

The Director of Jianshui Pottery Association said that local government’s efforts to support the pottery industry have been realized. In 2010, th Association was founded. Jianshui geographical trade mark was registered, and a pottery specialty was set up in colleges.

A Myanmar journalist speaks at the opening ceremony of the workshop. Photo by Sun Xiaoyun

The white snowy moun-tains, clear lakes, and

fresh flowers everywhere, Potatso National Park’s sits nearly 3,500 metres above sea level. It has lakes, wetlands, forests, meadows, valleys, streams rare animals and plants. The original ecological environment is very well preserved.

Luorong is a Tibetan village in Potatso National Park, and villagers like Du Jie follow the farming and grazing traditions handed down by their ancestors.

“The government plays the leading role, with pro-

tection as its priority, fran-chising operations, sharing prosperity together with the community with social controls.” With this policy in mind, Shudu and Bita-hai lakes and other areas were divided into different protective spheres. These included the Strictly Pro-tected Zone, the Ecological Nursing Zone, the Recrea-tion and Display Zone and the Traditional Use Zone, among others.

The 785 households spread across two town-ships in the park combined benefited from environ-mental protection. Com-pensation of the park com-munity is given out once

every five years. During the first five-year period, the fund was nearly ten million yuan, but now has grown to almost 20 mil-lion annually. Besides the reward money, the Potatso Branch of the Diqing Ti-betan Autonomous Prefec-ture Tourist Growth Group gives priority employment to villagers inside the park, and offers some aid pro-grams as well.

The wodden Tibet-an-sty le folk house is covered with a corrugated iron roof and a minibus is parked in the yard. Inside there all kinds of household electrical ap-pliances —Du Jie’s home looks both traditional and fashionable. “By taking the subsidy and earning wage, we can still herd and farm. It’s a wonderful life!” said Du Jie.

Without hunting or logging, the mountains are getting greener and greener, the waters clearer and clearer, and the whole family’s annual income has exceeded 100,000 yuan. When speaking of the changes, Du Jie could not help but be excited.

Tourists take photos at the Potatso National Park. Photo by Zhang Tong

Wang Changshan

Raymond Greene accepts Yunnan Daily’s exclusive interview. Photo by Wang Jing

A local craftsman is making purple pottery. Photo by Ma Zhe