Myanmar, China cooperate in shooting documentary series

Myanmar will cooperate with the China Central Television (CCTV) in shooting of the Myanmar part of a Langcang-Mekong documentary series, said a report of the local Voice Weekly Monday.

The 20-series documentary will feature Mekong River's natural resources and its development.

As a field research, a delegation made up of directors of the CCTV will arrive in Myanmar in May to take shooting of the country's fishery sector, the Association of Fishery Entrepreneurs was quoted as saying.

The CCTV will also take shooting of Myanmar's landscape, human resources, historical sites including ancient pagodas and economic undertakings, the sources said.

Besides cooperating with the Myanmar Radio and Television Department (MRTV), the CCTV will also work together with Cambodia's KTV, Laos' LTV, Thailand's Modern 9TV and Vietnam's VTV, the sources added.

The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) comprises six countries sharing the 4,500-kilometer Mekong River which originates from China and runs through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. The GMS has a combined land area of nearly 2.3 million square-kilometers and home to more than 250 million people.

Aimed at developing the international passenger and cargo transportation, trade and tourism on the Lancang-Mekong river, Myanmar joined three other countries located in the upper reaches of the Mekong river -- China, Laos and Thailand, in signing a commercial navigation agreement in April 2000 in Myanmar's Tachilek.

Under the agreement, which provides for vessels of any signatory country to sail freely between Simao in China and Luangprabang in Laos, Myanmar opened two ports along with three other signatories for the move. The Lancang-Mekong international waterway was officially opened to commercial navigation in June 2001.

Source: Xinhua