Yunnan cements ties of China, ASEAN members Xinhua | Updated: 2021-02-08 10:19 Share CLOSE Freshly cut flowers are placed in storage racks ahead of being traded at the Dounan International Flora Auction Trading Center. [Photo/China Daily]
KUNMING－A handful of seashells are on display in a museum in Southwest China s border province of Yunnan, recording the country s history of international communication.
Archaeologists believe that the seashells, imported from South Asia and Southeast Asia over 2,000 years ago, were used as both currency and an important commodity in Yunnan. Today, they embody the long-standing economic ties between China and the region.
Bordering Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, Yunnan has been on the front line of exchanges between China and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, said Chen Lijun, vice-president of the China (Kunming) Academy of South and Southeast Asian Studies. In 2020, China and t
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KUNMING (Xinhua): A handful of seashells are on display in a museum in southwest China s border province of Yunnan, recording the country s past history of international communication.
Archaeologists believe that the seashells, imported from South and Southeast Asia over 2,000 years ago, were used as both currency and an important commodity in Yunnan.
Today, they embody the long-standing economic ties between China and the region.
Bordering Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, Yunnan has been a frontline of interconnection and exchanges between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) countries, said Chen Lijun, vice president of the China (Kunming) Academy of South and Southeast Asian Studies.
Source: Xinhua | 2021-01-26 | Editor:Alison
Members of a Chinese medical team assisting the Myanmar government s efforts in fight against COVID-19 board the plane before departure at the Kunming Changshui International Airport in Kunming, southwest China s Yunnan Province, April 8, 2020. (Photo by Chen Xinbo/Xinhua)
From seashells to a specialized zone dedicated to free trade, China s border province bears witness to an ever-deepening relations between the country and ASEAN.
A handful of seashells are on display in a museum in southwest China s border province of Yunnan, recording the country s past history of international communication.
Archaeologists believe that the seashells, imported from South and Southeast Asia over 2,000 years ago, were used as both currency and an important commodity in Yunnan.