Study on Kunming int’l land port accepted

A study on central Yunnan’s Kunming city as a key international land port on the Belt and Road has, days ago, passed its acceptance check by the Decision Consulting Center for Kunming Scientific Development.

The project was jointly completed by the Kunming Municipal Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and the Kunming Institute for South and Southeast Asia International Logistics.

The study analyzes the urgency and necessity of land port construction in Kunming, China. The research group made an in-depth investigation in Kunming city, and put forward a number of innovative suggestions.

Putting forward the development model of a smart land port, the study says the spatial layout of Kunming land port will integrate features of the land port, business service, production service, air port and water port.

The study notes that Kunming should build an economic corridor around the Indian Ocean rim, while opening the Myanmar-China(Yunnan)-Russia freight route and the China-Laos-Cambodia route.

The international land port, or dry port, is built up in an inland economic hub. Essential to the international cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, it is a logistics hub in the international cargo transportation system.

Kunming is a land-port city determined by the United Nations Intergovernmental Agreement on Dry Ports, and it is also a pilot national logistics hub for commercial services, multimodal transport and more.

Reporting Zhu Dongran and Liao Xingyang (Yunnan Daily); Trans-editing by Wang Shixue