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Article: YUNNAN PROVINCE TO OPEN UP MORE GOLDEN WATERWAYS
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- April 28, 2006
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AsiaInfo Services
04-28-2006
Yunnan Province to Open up More Golden Waterways
BEIJING, Apr 28, 2006 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- Yunnan Province in southwest China is strving to open up more golden waterways in a bid to become China's shipping giant with ASEAN as its main partner.
According to the director of Navigation Affair Administration Bureau of Yunnan, Yunnan Province is far from the Sea, and its mountainous region covers 94 of the total area, so developing waterway transport is seemingly not so advisable. But the past five years have witnessed 24.5 rise in average shipping freight turnover of Yunnan Province, and its growth ranks first among various means of transportation. For example, ...