Enhancing the Sustainable Cooperation of Yunnan and Guizhou with the GMS-Policy Research

Client: Asian Development Bank

Duration: 2021-2022

Location: Guizhou, Yunnan Province,PRC

Contract Value: USD 950,000

Project Description

The knowledge and support technical assistance (KSTA) will bealigned with sustainable cooperation and integration between the PRC's Yunnan and Guizhou provinces and the Great Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries enhanced (13th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, 2016–2020).

There are 2 outputsin this project as follows:

Output 1: Road map on sustainable trade and investment cooperation with Greater Mekong Subregion for Yunnan prepared. The road map will identify obstacles and the corresponding solutions in Yunnan's policy, regulations, and institutions to facilitate trade and investment cooperation with the GMS.

Output 2: Infrastructure and economic linkages between Guizhou and the Greater Mekong Subregion identified. The TA will assess the potential for creating economic corridors between Guizhou and the GMS by reviewing the province's ongoing and planned economic and transport connectivity initiatives to determine how these may complement such economic corridor development.

Services Provided by NAREE

The content of the consulting service provided by NAREE are:

• Identification of the obstacles and corresponding solutions in Yunnan’s policy, regulations, and institutions;

• Diagnostic analysis of issues on customs, food safety, health security and cross-border mobility of people in cross-border trade and improvement of policy and system recommendation in Yunnan Provincial Government;

• Assessment of potential economic corridors linking Guizhou with the GMS;

• Guidance for mobilizing green finance in Guizhou, including for sustainable infrastructure projects, prepared, and endorsed

• Motivation the innovations in trade and investment facilitation with GMS countrie sinitiated; and

• Mobilization of green finance for the economic corridors under the guidelines of ESG considerations.