"The civil strife in Myanmar has subsided, and things have come flooding in all of a sudden, and your Economic and Commercial Office is indeed under a lot of pressure. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and there are many problems involved, and it is not something that your economic and commercial department can solve alone. ”

"However, the restoration work is now the top priority of our embassy's work."

"I think so, the embassy temporarily set up a 'Myanmar Rehabilitation Working Group', I am the leader, and several other counselors are the deputy leaders, and the specific work is still managed by the Economic and Commercial Department, but when there are problems that need to be coordinated, you can directly consult and assist me and several counselors."

Zhang Yaqiang, the agricultural counselor, began to talk about his own problems.

"Myanmar is an agricultural country, agricultural products have always been the main source of income for Myanmar, agricultural output value accounted for 36.98% of GDP, the main crops are: rice, beans, oil crops, cotton, sugarcane, jute, rubber and oil palm. It is the world's main rice exporter and one of the main rice importers in our country. ”

"Myanmar's agricultural exports account for 14.5 percent of the country's total exports, and agricultural workers account for 63 percent of the country's total labor force. The top 10 major crops of agriculture in Myanmar are: rice, sugarcane, long-staple cotton, maize, peanuts, sesame, sunflower, black beans, mung beans and red beans. ”

"However, Myanmar's agricultural mechanization is low, and the development potential is huge, with the total number of acres cultivated only accounting for about 43% of the total cultivated area, and large areas of land are idle."

"Previously, our country and the Myanmar government signed many agriculture-related cooperation projects, including importing rice, exporting agricultural machinery, leasing Myanmar land to grow grain, planting organic crops, etc."

"Due to the civil strife, these projects have basically been shelved, and our investment in agriculture has also been lost, and now the Ministry of Agriculture proposes to take back the original project and continue to do it, hoping that our embassy can help deal with the communication with the Ministry of Agriculture of Myanmar."

Muyang nodded and said, "This work must be done well, and it is also a matter for the two countries, and I believe that the Myanmar side will also attach great importance to it, and I will first communicate with President Sai Maokang and instruct this matter." ”

After Muyang finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Sheping, the administrative counselor, and said with a smile, "What is that thick stack in your hand?" ”

Zhang Sheping smiled and said, "Ambassador, this is a document sent by the ministry, but it seems that Director Cheng said that this was transferred to you, saying that Minister Liu has already communicated with you on the phone about these things." ”

"Oh, these are the big projects mentioned by Minister Liu, it is said that China Railway Group, China Power Investment Group, and China North Industries Group have approached the Ministry of Commerce and the State Institute of Materials, hoping to restart these projects with the help of the establishment of the new government of Myanmar."

"Comrades, perhaps you have heard of these projects before, namely the China-Myanmar Kunming-Kyaukphyu Railway, Myitsone Hydropower Station and the Laibitang Copper Mine three projects, back then, these three projects from the negotiation, to reach the intention, how much effort China put in, but in the end it was won for one reason or another, which made many people feel sad."

In April 2011, China Railway Engineering Corporation and the Ministry of Railway Transport signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the project, stipulating that the construction of the project would start within three years from the date of signing. The project was originally planned to be completed by 2015 with an investment of 20 billion US dollars, and our Chinese side was responsible for raising most of the funds, and we have the right to operate it for 50 years. ”

"But with such favorable conditions, in the end, the Burmese people repented, why, it was not because someone was obstructing it."

"In 2013, Taro Aso, the deputy prime minister of Japan's **** cabinet, who had just come to power, visited Myanmar. Aso said Japan would abandon about 300 billion of Myanmar's 500 billion yen debt arrears, and the remaining 200 billion would be settled in the form of financing through Japanese banks. ”

"In March 2014, when we were building a blueprint for the Trans-Asian Railway, Japan announced that it would provide free assistance to Myanmar of 7.8 billion yen, or about 472 million yuan, to help build railways and other facilities. Japanese Foreign Minister Kishida, who was visiting Myanmar at the time, made no secret of Japan's move to contain China. On May 24, 2014, Myanmar's Ministry of Railway Transport said that the Kunming-Jiaopiao railway project had suspended cooperation without the consent of the people. ”

"Our country has invested a lot of energy in the early stage of surveying and surveying routes and geology, drawing route maps, and even in the first line of Kunming in China, has begun to start digging tunnels, Myanmar has given up this big project involving 20 billion US dollars because of a little immediate interests, I can only say that the Wu Minhui government is short-sighted."

Speaking of this, Mu Yang slapped the table angrily.

"The Laibitang Copper Mine, with an investment of more than $1 billion, has been completed and put into operation, but there have been protests by local people, saying that the compensation for demolition and relocation is unfair and polluting the environment. But the demolition money has already been given to the Burmese side, and they embezzled it, but in the end, because of this incident, the project was suspended, and my country suffered huge losses. ”

"The Myitsone hydropower project, with a planned investment of 3.6 billion US dollars, is mainly funded by China, and finally China and Myanmar have benefited from the power produced.

"Myanmar is extremely short of electricity, and now Myanmar's power supply is even less than 20%, there is no electricity in remote villages, there is no power rationing in towns and villages, insufficient power supply in cities, and there is a shortage of electricity in industry.

Before, Muyang didn't know much about these projects, and he knew these things after Minister Liu, who was in charge of the Asian Division, approached him, and said that the three major groups found the Ministry of Commerce and the State Academy of Materials, hoping to restart the project, and Muyang checked the relevant information to learn about these situations.

It can be said that this is also the place where China's outbound investment has failed, and a lot of energy and money have been invested in the early stage of each project, but it is said that it will be stopped, which involves economic factors, but more importantly, political factors.

The risks of working with an unstable and untrustworthy government often outweigh the economic risks.

This is one of the reasons why Myanmar has not been able to develop well in the past few years. Because of the continuous investment accidents, the international community is worried about the investment environment in Myanmar.

Businessmen invest to make profits, but if the government is untrustworthy, changes the order at will, and stops the project at will, so that investors suffer huge losses, who is willing to invest in your country.

Even a large country like China suffers from this, not to mention some private conglomerates, and they don't want to take the money to go to such a country. (To be continued.) )