Myanmar Head of State Visits China's Yunnan Province

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Myanmar Head of State Visits China's Yunnan Province

Than Shwe, Chairman of Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council, arrived in Yunnan Friday, beginning his visit to this southwestern Yunnan Province, which shares a 1,997-kilometer border with Myanmar.

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Than Shwe, Chairman of Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council, arrived here Friday, beginning his visit to this southwestern Yunnan Province, which shares a 1,997-kilometer border with Myanmar.

Right after his arrival, Than Shwe, who just concluded his visit to neighboring Sichuan Province, met with Bai Enpei, secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and Yunnan Governor Xu Rongkai.

Bai said during the meeting that the high-level visits between the two sides would help Yunnan and Myanmar to find more cooperation opportunities in the fields of economy, technology, culture and personnel exchanges.

Than Shwe said his visit to China was successful and he hoped Myanmar and Yunnan could expand cooperation in replacing illegal drugs plants with agricultural crops, in the hydro-power sector and the use of natural resources.

He said Myanmar would improve its roadways to Yunnan Province and he hoped the two sides could accelerate cooperation in that aspect.

In his six-day visit which started on January 6, he has held talks and meetings in Beijing with China's top leaders, including President Jiang Zemin, Vice-President Hu Jintao, and chief legislator Li Peng.

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