Mekong Development and China’s

Mekong development is a commonly wish of people in Mekong subregion. As a country in upstream of Mekong River, China quite attaches importance to development of the subregion cooperation. Since the GMS program came into being, the Chinese government always has taken positive attitude to GMS and actively participated in the cooperative mechanism and given play to cooperation. Yunnan Province is a main part of China ’s participation in the GMS cooperation and it has been actively pushing forward the development of GMS cooperation. Yunnan Province undertakes a set of the projects concerning infrastructure and most of them have finished. Yunnan’s participation in GMS cooperation convincingly promotes Yunnan’s economic and social development, broaden Yunnan’s opening up, promotes friendship with neighboring countries and maintain state security. China will continue to common push development of GMS with other countries in subregion. Keywords