Yunnan focuses on future as trade center

Wang Yubo, governor of Yunnan, said at a news conference last month that the province has the nation's largest planting areas for tea, natural rubber, walnuts, macadamia nuts and Chinese medicinal herbs.

Last year, Yunnan produced more than 16.2 billion fresh flowers, enough for every person on Earth to have two and every citizen in China to have 10, he said.

Meanwhile, the province's circle of trading partners has grown to about 200 countries. Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are Yunnan's biggest trading partners, with Latin American countries second, he said.

"We will have a big trading market by seizing opportunities, making good use of transportation channels, cultivating logistics, developing industries, promoting opening up and accelerating the construction of an international hub for comprehensive transportation, energy, and digital logistics," Wang said.