CDAC (2): Myanmar reporter dreams of being a documentarist

“Wow, these are the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon and other cultural relics showing the splendid Asia cultures: the Great Wall in China, the Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and more,” said Myo Mya Min, who was watching a documentary titled "Asia: Light of Civilizations". 

Myo Mya Min is a journalist with Myanmar's 5 Plus TV, and the three-episode documentary about civilizations in Asia was aired ahead of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations (CDAC) in Beijing from May 15 to 22. 

"In the future, I also want to shoot an excellent documentary about Asian civilizations," Myo Mya Min added, calling himself a "future communicator ". Last year, he joined the "Future Communicator" training program by the Kunming-based Yunnan University and thus acquired the title.

During his stay in Yunnan, Myo Mya Min was enchanted by the natural beauty and he made a documentary about Yunnan vegetations: Green of Life. “Yunnan is known as the kingdom of flora, and I want to share with Myanmar folks the biological and cultural diversities in the province,” said he. 

In March, a documentary exhibition was held at the China Cultural Center in Yangon, Myanmar, and Myo Mya Min’s film of "Green of Life" was played at the event and liked by the locals. "I am pleased and encouraged for this,” said Myo Mya Min, adding he is planning the next documentary about China’s Yunnan.

Via his documentaries, Myo Mya Min hoped to show his townsmen a different Yunnan and let young people in Myanmar and China know each other better. “I am expecting the opportunity for another exchange in Yunnan, so that I can take more original pictures and video materials there.”

“The Myanmar-China cultural exchanges added glory to the traditional Paukphaw friendship,” Myo Mya Min said, adding it is crucial for the two countries to have more cultural exchanges given the Belt and Road Initiative and the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor program.

In January, Myo Mya Min covered the China-Myanmar Cultural Week. At the event, he experienced a number of traditional folklores, such as the Dai paper cutting, the Miao embroidery, the Myanmar weaving and sand paintings. 

"Nowadays Chinese elements are quite visible in Myanmar, encouraging the two peoples to learn from each other culturally." Myo Mya Min said as a communicator of Asian civilizations, he will contribute to building the Myanmar-China community with a shared future. 

Reporting by Zaw Ye Aung in Yangon (Mingalar magazine); trans-editing by Wang Shixue