Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and leaders from GMS member countries, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the World Bank (WB) participated in the event (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A photo exhibition featuring the 25-year cooperation of theGreater Mekong Subregion (GMS) was opened at the National Convention Centre inHanoi on March 30 as part of the sixth GMS Summit (GMS-6) and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-VietnamSummit on Development Triangle Area (CLV-10).
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and representative leaders from GMS membercountries, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the World Bank (WB) cut theribbon to kick off the event.
On display are 60 photosfeaturing the GMS member nations, namely the host Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,Thailand, Myanmar, and China, and the cooperation achievements in theregion.
Among notable pictures spotlighting remarkableaccomplishments of the GMS countries is the Noi Bai – Lao Cai expressway, the longestof its kind in Vietnam, launched in September 2014, as an important part of theNorth-South economic corridor projects aided by the ADB that brings in enormouseconomic values.
Since the route was put into use, it only takes three hours instead of sevenhours in the past to travel from the capital city of Hanoi to the northern borderprovince of Lao Cai.
The photo of a woman in Lounge village of Cambodia sitting to make a basketdepicts vocational training for women in rural areas and buildingsmall-and-medium-sized enterprises as part of the women empowerment developmentproject of the Cambodian government and ADB.
The picture of a traditional dance at the fifth China-Laos-Vietnam carnivalcultural exhibition demonstrates the cultural and people-to-people exchangesbetween the three GMS countries to increase subregional connectivity.
GMS was established in 1992 as an initiative of the Asian Development Bank(ADB). The GMS Cooperation Programme is the most complete cooperation programmethat involves Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and China’s Yunnanand Guangxi provinces.-VNA
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