Contact us at: (86)871-64160782 Fax: (86)871-64161299 Email: [email protected] Address: No.337, XinWen Road, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, PRC. PC: 650032 TREND EXCHANGE VISA BY WANG SHIXUE FRIDAY APRIL 1, 2016 YUNNANEXPRESS Lancang-Mekong cooperation spurs SE Asian languages learning craze BY FENG JUN and ZHAO XI European countries to set up visa centers in Kunming According to the official websites of the embassies of Spain, France, Sweden, Germany and Finland in China, these five European countries are planning to set up visa application centres in Kun- ming this year. The Spanish Embassy in Beijing posted the news that Spain will open new visa application centres in 12 Chi - nese cities, including Kunming, while Germany will have ten new visa centres in Kunming and another nine Chinese cities. The Swedish Embassy also said it will open ten new visa application centres in Xi’an, Chongqing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Shenyang, Wuhan, Hang- zhou, Jinan, Kunming and Changsha starting in April this year. Since October 2015, France has increased the number of its visa centres in China from six to nine, with Xi’an, Changsha, Kunming and Hangzhou added to the list. In 2016, Finland will set up new visa application centres in 13 Chinese cities, including Changsha, Chengdu, Kunming and more. On January 12, 2016, Mr. Sergio Maffettone, Consul General of Italy in Chongqing, said that his Consulate General is working on opening new visa centres in Chengdu and Kunming. The opening of these visa centres will bring more European countries closer to Yunnan. BY WANG CHAOJIE China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand joint patrol makes Mekong safer Zhong Zeran, captain of Zhonghui 6, has been engaged in shipping on the Mekong for sixteen years. When interviewed at Guanlei Harbour, he said, “Shipping on the Mekong is increasing- ly safer. The joint law enforcement of the Mekong by China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand has turned the Mekong into a safe and profitable river!” After the 10/5 Mekong Massacre in 2011, China, Laos, Myanmar and Thai - land signed the Joint Statement on Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation in the Mekong River Basin, according to which the four countries conducted the first joint patrol of the Mekong on December 10, 2011. So far, the joint pa - trol forces have escorted more than 720 merchant ships. During each patrol, law enforcement officers from the four countries educate merchant ship crews on shipping safety, hand out police-civilian contact cards, explain help-seeking methods, and issue alarm reporting numbers to people in all countries along the Mekong. According to Liu Jianhong, political commissar of the Yunnan Frontier Corps Water Detachment, joint patrols along the Me - kong are now carried out on a monthly basis. By February 24, 2016, a total of 43 joint patrols have been completed. COOPERATION China launches vaccine against HFMD virus On the bus, we musicians from different countries sang all the way. We travelled to Chux- iong, Lijiang and other major attractions in Yunnan and put all our hearts into our perfor- mances. We worked happily and enjoyed ourselves.” Andy Andy is a professional drummer from San Francisco, but he became emotionally attached to China a long time ago. During childhood, he got to know many Chinese people in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and was introduced to Chinese culture. He learned from his father that the railway line running across North America was insepara - ble from the hard work of Chinese builders. He looked forward to coming to China ever since. Andy loves rock ‘n’ roll and lives an ac - tive life. After graduation from high school, he did not go to university like most of his classmates. Instead, he came to Kunming with a few friends and set up a musical band in the style of The Eagles. They per - formed on Nanping Street and were happily immersed in the world of music. “It was around 1999 and those were passionate days. We worried about nothing and earned a good income for our performances,” Andy recalled. However, two of his friends left Kun- ming after less than a year and the band broke up. Andy stayed in Kunming and formed a new band, but he did not cooperate as well with the other members as he had with those in the original band. It was an unstable situation. Later, Andy joined a tour of Yunnan organised by Yunnan Television. At that time, Yunnan Television was recruiting for - eigners engaged in the entertaining cycle in Kunming to produce an promotional video because they wanted to introduce Yunnan to French people. Andy joined the film crew without hesitation. “On the bus, we musi - cians from different countries sang all the way. We travelled to Chuxiong, Lijiang and other major attractions in Yunnan and put all our hearts into our performances. We worked happily and enjoyed ourselves,” Andy said with an intoxicated expression. Andy still remembers his experience in a Yi ethnic village in Dayao County, Chux- iong Prefecture. “The kids were cute and timid. Seeing foreigners, they buried their faces in the bosoms of their parents. The vil - lagers were honest and friendly. They were always smiling, although communication was not very smooth due to linguistic barri - er,” said Andy. “Someone suggested that vil - lagers perform the Yi Left Foot Dance, but they were too shy to move. However, when the music was played, the villagers invol - untarily began dancing and we joined them. Soon, we were dancing hand in hand.” The whole village was turned into a melting pot. Andy realised that art is borderless and goes beyond nations. To date, Andy has been working and living in Yunnan for ten years, and he has travelled to almost all cities and prefec- tures in Yunnan. He admitted to us that his musical life is not as easy as it sounds. Today, he is not as energetic as before. He is considering returning home and stay- ing there for a few years. Meanwhile, he wants to tell of his experiences in Yunnan to more Americans. Yunnan is opening wider and the business environment in Kunming continues to improve. Howev- er, due to cultural differences, Andy still finds it difficult for foreign musicians to seek employment in Yunnan. Andy told us that he is deeply in love with this mag- ical land of Yunnan. The mountains and water as well as ethnic cultures here will never fade away from his mind. Andy's musical life in Yunnan 11 primary students from art troupe of the Bangkok-based Chongzhi School performed traditional Thai dancing March 20 at the square of Yunnan Nationalities Village in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, drawing attention from many tourists. The Thai pupils also visited Kunming Chinese-Language School and Kunming Vocational College of Art, as well as Kunming’s West Hill Forest Park where they had another dancing. Having more than 1,800 students, the Thai private school designated Chinese as a subject in 2013. Photo by Zhang Tong BY YUAN XUELIAN and BAI JINGLI Hearing the news about the first Lan- cang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Lead- ers’ Meeting, Ren Maoyang, a graduate student studying the Cambodian language at Yunnan Minzu University, was excited. His major is becoming increasingly pop- ular as the Lancang-Mekong cooperation continues to gain momentum. Ren still remembers that his under- graduate classmates had already been ful - ly “reserved” by employers even before they graduated. Ren himself was offered the job of Cambodian language teacher by Yunnan Normal University, although most university teachers must have a doc- toral degree. However, as top talents in Southeast Asia languages are so urgently needed due to the Lancang-Mekong co- operation, Ren still chose to pursue his masters degree first. Originating from the Qinghai Tang- gula Mountains, the Lancang River is known as the Mekong after exiting China. It flows through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, before entering the South China Sea. Since the 1990s, Lancang-Mekong regional cooperation has taken diverse forms. Currently, pertaining cooperation mech- anisms include the Lancang-Mekong Subregional Economic Cooperation, the ASEAN-Mekong Development Coop- eration, the Mekong Commission and more. On March 23, the first LMC Lead- ers’ Meeting was held in Sanya, Hainan, during which leaders of the six countries had an in-depth exchange of views on the promotion of the LMC mechanism, all- round cooperation in GMS countries and regional integration. Professor Liu Xiaorong, who has been teaching at Yunnan Nationalities University for 37 years, believes that as the GMS regional cooperation mech- anism deepens, the demand for talents in Southeast Asian languages will grow drastically. As early as 2013, Yunnan Province set up a non-generic language education board to strengthen training in the fields of Southeast and South Asian languages. As of the end of 2014, Yunnan has established 11 international training bases in its colleges and universities, with a to- tal of 55,000 students enrolled in related majors. At present, these majors include Thai, Burmese, Lao, Hindi and more, and are training a large number of students of Southeast and South Asian languages every year. Employment prospects in the future look promising. China has developed a vaccine against hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD). The HFMD is caused by a group of enteroviruses including EV71, which causes heart and lung complications that can lead to death. Infants and children under five years are most vulnerable. (Xinhua News Agency) Wearing a crumpled cap and no shoes or sandals, Vietnamese farmer Vo Van Chien with a weather-beaten face is sitting barefoot on his bone- dry rice paddy, cutting waning rice plants, and saying, “If only water released from China’s Jinghong dam could arrive here soon.” According to the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the ongoing drought and saltwater encroachment in the Mekong Delta have made some one million people suffer from short - age of water for domestic use and caused losses of around 700,000 tons of rice. Moreover, the shortage of running water has forced many residents to buy water transported by big boats and barges from rivers in neighboring provinces which are facing less severe saltwater en- croachment. “Besides the exorbitant price, I have to spend another 100,000 Vietnamese dong hiring a tricy - cle to transport river water to my house. This is the first time in my life, I have had to buy river water for domestic use,” a 70-year-old woman named Nguyen Thi Lua told Xinhua, adding that her extended family lives in Ben Tre City in Ben Tre Province. In Ben Tre’s rural coastal areas, residents have had to buy freshwater from deep wells at prices of be - tween 150,000-200,000 Vietnamese dong (6.7-8.9 U.S. dollars) per cubic meter. Meanwhile, one cubic meter of running water costs only 7,000- 8,000 Vietnamese dong (around 0.3 U.S. dollars). In order to help alleviate drought in Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cam- bodia and Vietnam, China has de- cided to release emergency water supply from Jinghong Hydropower Station in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, to downstream Mekong River from March 15 to April 10. According to calculations by the Mekong River Committee, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta will re- ceive some 27 percent to 54 percent of water discharged from Jinghong dam. On Sunday, still clutching his sickle to cut dying paddy rice plants to feed his cattle, and standing in the middle of his bone-dry rice pad- dy, Vo Van Chien said, “Television said water released from the Jing- hong dam to the Mekong River will flow to Vietnam’s border on April 4. I hope that at that time, I can save part of my paddy field.” Sitting in her air-conditioned room in Ben Tre City, another Viet- namese farmer Nguyen Thi Lua said, “It will not rain soon. So, if water released from China’s dam comes here, even if there is no rain, the water will help ordinary people like us to save rice fields, and cut costs on water for domestic use and on animal feeds, making our daily life better.” “Water released from Jinghong dam had already arrived in Laos and was some 800 km away from Viet- nam’s border. When the water arrives in Vietnam, expected on April 4, it will drive the saltwater encroachment some 20 km back to the sea, and Vietnamese provinces along Tien and Hau rivers will benefit directly from the water released from the Jinghong dam.” Agriculture minister Cao Duc Phat said At a government meeting on March 26 in Hanoi. (XinhuaNews Agency) NEIGHBOUR MEDICINE China's dam to help relieve drought in Vietnam According to calculations by the Mekong River Committee, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta will receive some 27 percent to 54 percent of water discharged from Jinghong dam. 54 percent FOREIGNERS IN YUNNAN
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Contact us at: (86)871-64160782 Fax: (86)871-64161299 Email: [email protected] Address: No.337, XinWen Road, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, PRC. PC: 650032
TREND EXCHANGE VISA
BY WANG SHIXUE
FRIDAY APRIL 1, 2016
YUNNANEXPRESS
Lancang-Mekong cooperation spurs
SE Asian languages learning craze
BY FENG JUN and ZHAO XI
European countries
to set up visa
centers in Kunming
According to the official websites of the embassies of Spain, France, Sweden, Germany and Finland in China, these five European countries are planning to set up visa application centres in Kun-ming this year.
The Spanish Embassy in Beijing posted the news that Spain will open new visa application centres in 12 Chi-nese cities, including Kunming, while Germany will have ten new visa centres in Kunming and another nine Chinese cities. The Swedish Embassy also said it will open ten new visa application centres in Xi’an, Chongqing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Shenyang, Wuhan, Hang-zhou, Jinan, Kunming and Changsha starting in April this year. Since October 2015, France has increased the number of its visa centres in China from six to nine, with Xi’an, Changsha, Kunming and Hangzhou added to the list. In 2016, Finland will set up new visa application centres in 13 Chinese cities, including Changsha, Chengdu, Kunming and more. On January 12, 2016, Mr. Sergio Maffettone, Consul General of Italy in Chongqing, said that his Consulate General is working on opening new visa centres in Chengdu and Kunming.
The opening of these visa centres will bring more European countries closer to Yunnan.
BY WANG CHAOJIE
China, Laos,
Myanmar, Thailand
joint patrol makes
Mekong safer
Zhong Zeran, captain of Zhonghui 6, has been engaged in shipping on the Mekong for sixteen years. When interviewed at Guanlei Harbour, he said, “Shipping on the Mekong is increasing-ly safer. The joint law enforcement of the Mekong by China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand has turned the Mekong into a safe and profitable river!”
After the 10/5 Mekong Massacre in 2011, China, Laos, Myanmar and Thai-land signed the Joint Statement on Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation in the Mekong River Basin, according to which the four countries conducted the first joint patrol of the Mekong on December 10, 2011. So far, the joint pa-trol forces have escorted more than 720 merchant ships.
During each patrol, law enforcement officers from the four countries educate merchant ship crews on shipping safety, hand out police-civilian contact cards, explain help-seeking methods, and issue alarm reporting numbers to people in all countries along the Mekong. According to Liu Jianhong, political commissar of the Yunnan Frontier Corps Water Detachment, joint patrols along the Me-kong are now carried out on a monthly basis. By February 24, 2016, a total of 43 joint patrols have been completed.
COOPERATIONChina launches vaccine against
HFMD virus
On the bus, we musicians from different countries sang all the way. We travelled to Chux-iong, Lijiang and other major attractions in Yunnan and put all our hearts into our perfor-mances. We worked happily and enjoyed ourselves.” Andy
Andy is a professional drummer from San Francisco, but he became emotionally attached to China a long time ago. During childhood, he got to know many Chinese people in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and was introduced to Chinese culture. He learned from his father that the railway line running across North America was insepara-ble from the hard work of Chinese builders. He looked forward to coming to China ever since.
Andy loves rock ‘n’ roll and lives an ac-tive life. After graduation from high school, he did not go to university like most of his classmates. Instead, he came to Kunming with a few friends and set up a musical band in the style of The Eagles. They per-
formed on Nanping Street and were happily immersed in the world of music. “It was around 1999 and those were passionate days. We worried about nothing and earned a good income for our performances,” Andy recalled.
However, two of his friends left Kun-ming after less than a year and the band broke up. Andy stayed in Kunming and formed a new band, but he did not cooperate as well with the other members as he had with those in the original band. It was an unstable situation.
Later, Andy joined a tour of Yunnan organised by Yunnan Television. At that time, Yunnan Television was recruiting for-eigners engaged in the entertaining cycle in Kunming to produce an promotional video because they wanted to introduce Yunnan to
French people. Andy joined the film crew without hesitation. “On the bus, we musi-cians from different countries sang all the way. We travelled to Chuxiong, Lijiang and other major attractions in Yunnan and put all our hearts into our performances. We
worked happily and enjoyed ourselves,” Andy said with an intoxicated expression.
Andy still remembers his experience in a Yi ethnic village in Dayao County, Chux-iong Prefecture. “The kids were cute and timid. Seeing foreigners, they buried their faces in the bosoms of their parents. The vil-lagers were honest and friendly. They were always smiling, although communication was not very smooth due to linguistic barri-er,” said Andy. “Someone suggested that vil-lagers perform the Yi Left Foot Dance, but they were too shy to move. However, when the music was played, the villagers invol-untarily began dancing and we joined them. Soon, we were dancing hand in hand.” The whole village was turned into a melting pot. Andy realised that art is borderless and goes beyond nations.
To date, Andy has been working and living in Yunnan for ten years, and he has travelled to almost all cities and prefec-tures in Yunnan. He admitted to us that his musical life is not as easy as it sounds. Today, he is not as energetic as before. He is considering returning home and stay-ing there for a few years. Meanwhile, he wants to tell of his experiences in Yunnan to more Americans. Yunnan is opening wider and the business environment in Kunming continues to improve. Howev-er, due to cultural differences, Andy still finds it difficult for foreign musicians to seek employment in Yunnan. Andy told us that he is deeply in love with this mag-ical land of Yunnan. The mountains and water as well as ethnic cultures here will never fade away from his mind.
Andy's musical life in Yunnan
11 primary students from art troupe of the Bangkok-based Chongzhi School performed traditional Thai dancing March 20 at the square of Yunnan Nationalities Village in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, drawing attention from many tourists. The Thai pupils also visited Kunming Chinese-Language School and Kunming Vocational College of Art, as well as Kunming’s West Hill Forest Park where they had another dancing. Having more than 1,800 students, the Thai private school designated Chinese as a subject in 2013. Photo by Zhang Tong
BY YUAN XUELIAN and BAI JINGLI
Hearing the news about the first Lan-cang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Lead-ers’ Meeting, Ren Maoyang, a graduate student studying the Cambodian language at Yunnan Minzu University, was excited. His major is becoming increasingly pop-ular as the Lancang-Mekong cooperation continues to gain momentum.
Ren still remembers that his under-graduate classmates had already been ful-ly “reserved” by employers even before they graduated. Ren himself was offered the job of Cambodian language teacher by Yunnan Normal University, although most university teachers must have a doc-toral degree. However, as top talents in Southeast Asia languages are so urgently needed due to the Lancang-Mekong co-operation, Ren still chose to pursue his masters degree first.
Originating from the Qinghai Tang-gula Mountains, the Lancang River is known as the Mekong after exiting China. It flows through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, before entering the South China Sea. Since the 1990s, Lancang-Mekong regional cooperation has taken diverse forms. Currently, pertaining cooperation mech-
anisms include the Lancang-Mekong Subregional Economic Cooperation, the ASEAN-Mekong Development Coop-eration, the Mekong Commission and more. On March 23, the first LMC Lead-ers’ Meeting was held in Sanya, Hainan, during which leaders of the six countries had an in-depth exchange of views on the promotion of the LMC mechanism, all-round cooperation in GMS countries and regional integration.
Professor Liu Xiaorong, who has been teaching at Yunnan Nationalities University for 37 years, believes that as the GMS regional cooperation mech-anism deepens, the demand for talents in Southeast Asian languages will grow drastically. As early as 2013, Yunnan Province set up a non-generic language education board to strengthen training in the fields of Southeast and South Asian languages.
As of the end of 2014, Yunnan has established 11 international training bases in its colleges and universities, with a to-tal of 55,000 students enrolled in related majors. At present, these majors include Thai, Burmese, Lao, Hindi and more, and are training a large number of students of Southeast and South Asian languages every year. Employment prospects in the future look promising.
China has developed a vaccine against hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD).The HFMD is caused by a group of enteroviruses including EV71, which causes heart and lung complications that can lead to death. Infants and children under five years are most vulnerable. (Xinhua News Agency)
Wearing a crumpled cap and no shoes or sandals, Vietnamese farmer Vo Van Chien with a weather-beaten face is sitting barefoot on his bone-dry rice paddy, cutting waning rice plants, and saying, “If only water released from China’s Jinghong dam could arrive here soon.”
According to the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the ongoing drought and saltwater encroachment in the Mekong Delta have made some one million people suffer from short-age of water for domestic use and caused losses of around 700,000 tons of rice. Moreover, the shortage of running water has forced many residents to buy water transported by big boats and barges from rivers in neighboring provinces which are facing less severe saltwater en-croachment.
“Besides the exorbitant price, I have to spend another 100,000 Vietnamese dong hiring a tricy-cle to transport river water to my house. This is the first time in my life, I have had to buy river water for domestic use,” a 70-year-old woman named Nguyen Thi Lua told Xinhua, adding that her extended family lives in Ben Tre City in Ben Tre Province.
In Ben Tre’s rural coastal areas, residents have had to buy freshwater from deep wells at prices of be-tween 150,000-200,000 Vietnamese dong (6.7-8.9 U.S. dollars) per cubic meter. Meanwhile, one cubic meter of running water costs only 7,000-8,000 Vietnamese dong (around 0.3 U.S. dollars).
In order to help alleviate drought in Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cam-bodia and Vietnam, China has de-cided to release emergency water supply from Jinghong Hydropower Station in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, to downstream Mekong River from March 15 to April 10. According to calculations by the Mekong River Committee, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta will re-ceive some 27 percent to 54 percent of water discharged from Jinghong dam.
On Sunday, still clutching his
sickle to cut dying paddy rice plants to feed his cattle, and standing in the middle of his bone-dry rice pad-dy, Vo Van Chien said, “Television said water released from the Jing-hong dam to the Mekong River will flow to Vietnam’s border on April 4. I hope that at that time, I can save part of my paddy field.”
Sitting in her air-conditioned room in Ben Tre City, another Viet-namese farmer Nguyen Thi Lua said, “It will not rain soon. So, if water released from China’s dam comes here, even if there is no rain, the water will help ordinary people like us to save rice fields, and cut costs on water for domestic use and on animal feeds, making our daily life better.”
“Water released from Jinghong dam had already arrived in Laos and was some 800 km away from Viet-nam’s border. When the water arrives in Vietnam, expected on April 4, it will drive the saltwater encroachment some 20 km back to the sea, and Vietnamese provinces along Tien and Hau rivers will benefit directly from the water released from the Jinghong dam.” Agriculture minister Cao Duc Phat said At a government meeting on March 26 in Hanoi.
(XinhuaNews Agency)
NEIGHBOUR
MEDICINE
China's dam to help relievedrought in Vietnam
According to calculations by the Mekong River Committee, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta will receive some 27 percent to 54 percent of water discharged from Jinghong dam.
54 percent
FOREIGNERS IN YUNNAN
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