2025 March 26
Celebrating. 9 Years of Lancang -Mekong Cooperation ( LMC ) For nearly a decade, the LMC has fostered regional development, collaboration, and prosperity across the Mekong Region. As we mark this milestone, we reflect on the progress made and the partnerships strengthened along the way.
Watch MI’s special video tribute to the LMC’s journey and its impact on sustainable development. Together, we continue to build a more connected, resilient, and thriving Mekong Region! LancangMekong #LMC #RegionalDevelopment #MekongInstitute
2022 July 7 News CGTN News For more:
https://www.cgtn.com/video. The Seventh Lancang-Mekong Foreign Ministers Meeting has convened in Bagan, Myanmar. The six nations that straddle the Lancang-Mekong River have shared the natural resources and also worked on preserving the river basin’s unique ecology. How can cooperation along the Lancang-Mekong River set an example for the rest of ASEAN and the wider world? Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://goo.gl/lP12gA
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2018 Januaery 01 Langcang-Mekong Cooperation and Interview with Kai-Lee Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attended the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation leaders’ meeting in Cambodia. Can this mechanism satisfy the environmental and economic needs of everyone living along this transnational river? Tian Wei speaks to tech guru Kai-Fu Lee about the future of AI. He explains how humans can brace for AI entering the job market. CGTN News
2015 November 12 Asia FMs discuss Mekong- Lancang cooperation (12 Nov 2015) Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted his counterparts from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam for the first six-party forum on the Mekong River, known as Lancang in China.
The parties were expected to come up with a cooperation mechanism on the river and will prepare for a leaders summit of the six nations.
The Lancang-Mekong River runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, a natural link between the six countries.
The cooperation mechanism was proposed by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in November 2014 when he attended the 17th China-ASEAN leaders’ meeting in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
China’s role in the Lancang -Mekong Cooperation CCTV NEWS 2016 April 6
Weather patterns related to El Nino have wreaked havoc on countries along the Lancang-Mekong River, leaving many stricken by drought. Last month China stepped in to release an emergency supply of water from the Jinghong Hydropower Station in southwest Yunnan province, which by all reports is doing much to alleviate potentially disastrous conditions. How does this cooperation benefit the lives of people in the region? What role can China play in the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation mechanism, which was launched in November last year? And for nations like Vietnam, which has seen relations with China strain over territorial issues, how might such a move impact regional politics? Join us for a chat with Mr. Yang Xiyu, Senior Fellow at the China Institute of International Studies; and Mr. Lim Tai Wei, Research Fellow Adjunct at National University of Singapore. Subscribe to us on Youtube: / cctvnewsbeijing Download for IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/…. Download for Android: https://play.google.com/store/ap…. Follow us on:
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Second Lancang -Mekong Cooperation summit: What challenges lie ahead ? The second Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) summit was held in Cambodia this week to promote cooperation between the six nations along the Lancang-Mekong River – namely China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Tuesday that the “meeting will bring great benefits to all its members”. Since the establishment of the LMC, China has allocated billions of US dollars to support river projects, including water resource research centers, border trade, forest restoration, water quality monitoring, agriculture and poverty alleviation. Small- and medium-sized enterprises along the river have also been recipients of Chinese investment. What will the outcomes from the second LMC summit be? Are ASEAN people and governments seeing tangible benefits? And what issues remain in need of resolution?
2020 March 28
Mekong Institute and Lancang -Mekong Cooperation Spexial Fund Projects Get to know the MI-implemented projects and activities supported by the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Special Fund in Cambodia, P.R. China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand from 2018 to 2020.
Discussion: Lancang-Mekong Cooperation / CCTV News. YouTube 2016 March 24
The first Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Leaders’ Meeting kicked off in Sanya in China’s Hainan Province, with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and others in attendance. Running with the theme of “Shared River, Shared Future”, the conference was expected to focus on security and development, as well as political, social and cultural fields. In past years, the mechanism has benefited people living along the rivers. What is the significance of the LMC mechanism, which was added into the Chinese diplomatic lexicon last year? What are the priorities for the six participating countries, and how might the LMC benefit people’s lives in the region? Join us for a chat with Mr. Teng Jianqun, Director of the Center of Arms Control at the China Institute of International Studies; Mr. Song Qingrun from the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations; and in Bangkok, Mr. Sean Boonpracong, former advisor to the Thai government.
2018 January News


Announcement
(၁၀-၈-၂၀၂၁ ရက်၊ နေပြည်တော်)
မဲခေါင်-လန်ချန်း ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မှုအထူးရန်ပုံငွေ (၂၀၂၁) ဖြင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဝန်ကြီး ဌာန(၁၁)ခုမှ အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရွက်ခွင့်ရရှိသော စီမံကိန်းများအတွက် ရန်ပုံငွေလွှဲ ပြောင်းလက်ခံလွှာ လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးပွဲအခမ်းအနားကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဩဂုတ်လ ၁၀ ရက်၊ နံနက်ပိုင်းတွင် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၌ video conference စနစ်ဖြင့် ကျင်းပခဲ့ရာ၊ နိုင်ငံခြား ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ဉီးဝဏ္ဏမောင်လွင်နှင့် ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဆိုင်ရာ တရုတ်ပြည်သူ့သမ္မတနိုင်ငံသံအမတ်ကြီး မစ္စတာချန်းဟိုင်တို့က လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးခဲ့သည်။
လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးပွဲအခမ်းအနားသို့ အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရေးဝန်ကြီး ဌာန၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး၊ စီမံကိန်းလက်ခံရရှိသည့်ဝန်ကြီးဌာနများမှ ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး များ၊ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနမှ ဒုတိယဝန်ကြီး၊ အမြဲတမ်းအတွင်းဝန်၊ အဆင့်မြင့်အရာရှိကြီး များနှင့် ရန်ကုန်မြို့ရှိ တရုတ်နိုင်ငံသံရုံးမှတာဝန်ရှိသူများ ပါဝင်တက်ရောက်ခဲ့သည်။
မဲခေါင်-လန်ချန်း ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မှု အထူးရန်ပုံငွေ (၂၀၂၁) တွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှစီမံ ကိန်း (၂၂) ခုရရှိခဲ့သော်လည်း၊ “Biosafety level-3 Lab” တည်ဆောက်ရေးစီမံကိန်းအတွက် ရန်ပုံငွေကို ပြည်တွင်းလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များ ပြီးစီးသည့်အချိန်တွင် လွှဲပြောင်းပေးသွားမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး၊ ကျန်စီမံကိန်း(၂၁)ခုအတွက် အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ (၆.၁) သန်းကျော်ကို လွှဲပြောင်းပေးအပ်ခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် သမားရိုးကျမဟုတ်သောလုံခြုံရေး၊ လူ့စွမ်းအားအရင်းအမြစ် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး၊ တိရစ္ဆာန်ရောဂါကာကွယ်ဆေးထုတ်လုပ်မှု၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှု၊ စိုက်ပျိုးရေး၊ သဘာဝဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကာကွယ်ရေး၊ သိပ္ပံနှင့်နည်းပညာ၊ သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ထိန်းသိမ်းရေး၊ သစ်တော၊ နယ်စပ်ကုန်သွယ်ရေး၊ ခရီးသွားလာရေး၊ ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနယ်ပယ်တို့တွင် စီမံကိန်းများ အကောင်အထည်ဖေါ်ဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
တရုတ်ပြည်သူ့သမ္မတနိုင်ငံသည် မဲခေါင်နိုင်ငံများအနေဖြင့် လူမှုစီးပွားဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု အထောက်အကူပြုမည့် စီမံကိန်းများအကောင်အထည်ဖေါ်ဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ရန်အတွက် မဲခေါင်-လန်ချန်းပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မှုလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်အောက်တွင် အထူးရန်ပုံငွေကို ၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ်တွင် ထူထောင်ပေးအပ်ခဲ့ပြီး၊ နှစ်စဉ် မဲခေါင်နိုင်ငံများသို့ နိုင်ငံအလိုက် စီမံကိန်းများ ခွင့်ပြုပေးခဲ့ပါသည်။
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် ၂၀၁၇ နှစ်မှ ၂၀၂၀ ကာလအတွင်း စီမံကိန်း (၅၁) ခု၊ တန်ဖိုး အမေရိကန် ဒေါ်လာ( ၁၆.၃) သန်းကို လက်ခံရရှိခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ်ပါသည်။
မဲခေါင်-လန်ချန်း ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မှုအစီအစဉ်သည် ၂၀၁၄ ခုနှစ်အတွင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်ခဲ့သော (၁၇) ကြိမ်မြောက် အာဆီယံ-တရုတ် ထိပ်သီးအစည်းအဝေးတွင် တရုတ်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် Mr. Li Keqiang ၏ စတင်အဆိုပြုချက်အရ မဲခေါင်ဒေသအတွင်း ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှု ကွာဟချက်လျှော့ချရန်နှင့် စဉ်ဆက်မပြတ်ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှုရရှိရေးအတွက် ပူးပေါင်းဆောင် ရွက်ရန်ရည်ရွယ်လျက် ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား၊ တရုတ်၊ လာအို၊ မြန်မာ၊ ထိုင်းနှင့် ဗီယက်နမ်နိုင်ငံတို့ဖြင့် ၂၀၁၆ ခုနှစ်တွင် ဖွဲ့စည်းတည်ထောင်ခဲ့ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။
(10-8-2021, Nay Pyi Taw)
U Wunna Maung Lwin, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and H.E. Mr. Chen Hai, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar signed the agreement on the transfer of fund for Mekong-Lancang Special Fund (2021) projects, via video conference in the morning of 10th August 2021.
The Union Minister for International Cooperation, Union Ministers from project receiving Ministries, Deputy Minister, Permanent Secretary and Senior Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and officials from the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Yangon participated in the signing ceremony.
Although Myanmar received a total of (22) projects under the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Special Fund (2021), the transfer will be made over (6.1) million USD for (21) projects, and the fund for establishing “Biosafety level-3 Laboratory” project will be transferred once the internal process of fund supporter has completed. The projects to be implemented in Myanmar, covers in the areas of non-traditional security, human capital development, vaccine production for animal diseases, culture, agriculture, natural disaster protection, science and technology, environmental conservation, forestry, border trade, tourism and finance.
China solely established the Special Fund under the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation in 2017 to implement the projects supported to the socioeconomic development of Mekong countries, and granted the projects annually to each of Mekong countries.
Myanmar had received (51) projects between 2017 and 2020 with total value of USD (16.3) million.
The Mekong-Lancang Cooperation was initiated by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the 17th ASEAN-China Summit held in Myanmar in 2014 to foster cooperation to narrow the development gap and attain sustainable development in the Mekong region. Mekong-Lancang Cooperation was officially launched in 2016 among six Mekong-Lancang countries comprising Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam.

Mekong – Lancang Cooperation (MLC)
International Cooperation Framework
Background and objective
The Mekong – Lancang Cooperation comprises of 6 member countries which are Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, and China. This cooperation framework was initiated by Thailand in 2012 aiming at developing cooperative framework in the Mekong economic region by emphasizing sustainable development, reducing inequality, and promoting ASEAN development process. Member countries continuously discuss ways to the cooperative framework and formally announced its establishment at the 1st Mekong – Lancang Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in November 2015.
The Mekong – Lancang Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting is held annually and the Mekong – Lancang Cooperation Leaders’ Meeting is held bi-annually. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the primary responsible party, whereby the Mekong – Lancang Cooperation framework encompasses 3 areas, in line with ASEAN’s 3 pillars as follows:
1. Politics and Stability
2. Economic and Sustainable Development
2.1 Expansion of Trade and Investment
2.2 Improving physical and regulatory connectivity
2.3 Promotion of financial cooperation
2.4 Promotion of water resources cooperation and management
2.5 Promotion of energy cooperation
2.6 Promotion of private sector participation
3. Social, Cultural, and Public Interaction
The Mekong – Lancang Cooperation comprises of 6 Joint-Working Groups in priority areas as follows:
1. Joint-Working Group on Connectivity
2. Joint-Working Group on Production Capacity
3. Joint-Working Group on Water Resources
4. Joint-Working Group on Agriculture
5. Joint-Working Group on Poverty Reduction
6. Joint-Working Group on Cross Border Economic-Cooperation
The BOT’s role in The Mekong – Lancang Cooperation
The BOT is a member in the Joint Working Group on Cross-Border Economic Cooperation (JWG-CBEC), which is primary responsible for promoting financial sector cooperation. For example, monitoring economic and financial stability, auditing and regulating financial institutions, promotion of local currency usage for regional trade and investment, and supporting payment connectivity to promote E-commerce between member countries, in line with the BOT’s policies in other multilateral cooperations.
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