The Greater Mekong subregion includes Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and China’s Yunnan and Guangxi provinces, covering about 2.6 million square kilometers and housing over 333 million people.
Non-traditional security challenges like climate change and natural disasters continue to impact the region, prompting Mekong countries to enhance coordination through subregional mechanisms while also advancing economic development and infrastructure projects along the Mekong River.
At this summit, leaders will tackle traditional issues like economic facilitation, trade, investment, infrastructure connectivity, and sustainable management of transboundary water resources while also focusing on innovation.
According to the Deputy Minister, these new cooperation areas will strengthen the mechanisms, positioning them not only as traditional pillars of subregional collaboration but also as pioneering frameworks that elevate the Mekong Subregion within the regional and international value chain./.
