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? Improving the level of civilization: ? Expanding and strengthening the park
Stimulating cultural innovation and enriching economy, implementing the three year action
people¡¯s spiritual and cultural life. Building for the revitalization of the development zone,
cultural corridors for South and Southeast Asia accelerating the construction of Kunming and
and enhancing Yunnan¡¯s competitive role of Qujing industrial transfer parks and industrial
dissemination of Chinese culture to the globe. parks along the border of Mohan, Ruili and Hekou
and focusing on building a number of 100 billion
? Improving the quality of people¡¯s lives yuan industrial clusters, with the added value of
and household income: Making new progress in industries above designated size in 89 development
high-quality full employment and synchronizing zones increasing by 7.7% and FAI increasing by
household income with economic growth. The 30.1%, which are 2.5 and 40.7% higher than that of
structure of income distribution will be optimized, the province respectively.
with expanding middle-income groups. Further
promoting the development of education, talent ? To optimize and invigorate the port
and sport with plateau characteristics and healthy economy, coordinating the improvement of port
Yunnan construction. Improving the sustainability functions, port economic development and port
of social security systems and the level of city construction. The construction of smart ports
equalization of basic public services. is at the forefront of the country, the import and
export freight volume of ports has increased by
? Consolidating the governance of border 32.2% and Mohan Railway Port has become China¡¯s
ethnic areas: Further strengthening the socialist largest railway port for ASEAN.
democracy and the rule of law. Preventing and
resolving risks in work safety, disaster prevention, The Implementation Plan for Promoting
border management, public security governance the Construction of Green Power Direct
areas, and solving the government debt issues Connection in Yunnan Province 84
effectively. Enhancing protection in key areas such
as food, energy and resources, finance, bioecology ? In July 2025, Yunnan issued a new plan
and data. to explore the development of green direct-
connected projects. It became the first province
In November 2022, Yunnan government to respond to the national ¡°No. 650¡± measure
formulated and implemented the ¡°3815¡± strategic and advance new models of power production
development goals , which involves a three- and consumption.
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year plan to upgrade economic performance,
eight-year plan to achieve high-quality growth, ? As for application, the plan supports sectors
15-year plan to realize leapfrog development and such as green aluminum, silicon photovoltaic, new
strengthen the resource economy, park economy energy batteries, non-ferrous metals (including
and port economy. rare and precious metals) and data centers. It
also encourages export-oriented enterprises with
Major tasks: strict carbon reduction requirements to explore
direct green power connections using nearby new
? Fostering and developing the green energy resources.
aluminum, silicon photovoltaic power and new
energy battery industries: Promoting these ? The plan encourages innovative
three industries by extending industrial chains construction approaches. In principle, the load
and advancing clustered development, truly enterprise is the primary responsible unit for green
building Yunnan into the Chinese valley of green power direct connection projects, and the same
aluminum, the photovoltaic power capital and investor is encouraged to develop the project as a
an important industrial base for new energy whole. Power supply can be invested by the load
batteries in China.
84 Yunnan Development and Reform Commis-
83 Government of Yunnan, https://www.yn.gov.cn/ sion, https://yndrc.yn.gov.cn/html/2025/qitawen-
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