China Focus: Wider opening-up brings closer ties with Asian neighbors
A grain of jasmine rice “jumps” to a freighter in Cambodia. It, together with thousands of its companions, will arrive in China in about a week. The jasmine rice from Cambodia sells very well in Yunnan, a border province in southwestern China. As a gateway to South and Southeast Asia, Yunnan is currently building itself into a frontier in China’s new round of opening-up and pushing forward the development of international trade.
