Asia Insight — Season 1, Episode 18: The Greater Mekong Subregion: China Creates Massive Trade Center

Episode synopsis

In the Greater Mekong Subregion, the bordering countries of China, Thailand, Laos Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar are working hard to stimulate and increase trade. Asia Insight will devote three episodes to measures implemented by nations as they battle for economic control. The first episode focuses on China and its efforts to build infrastructure, develop a massive trade center, and train entrepreneurs. We also highlight the growing trade between China and Myanmar and the lives of local workers endeavoring to realize their hopes and aspirations.

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An in-depth portrait of Asia today, covering its dynamism as a center of growth as well as its traditions tossed around by the advance of globalization.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Migrants Gain Upper Hand
• E2Indonesia's First National Car
• E3Diversifying Shanghai
• E4Vietnam's Court Music Revival
• E5Writers Fight Publishing Ban in HK
• E6Mongolia's Forgotten Slum Dwellers
• E7The "80's Writers" in China
• E8Hydropower for Indonesian Villagers
• E9Energy-Hungry Nepal
• E10China's Job-Hunting Inn
• E11The Year of the Dragon Baby Boom
• E12The Dancing Prisoners