Entering 2022, the China-Laos Railway has been in operation for one and a half months, making sufficient preparations for the arrival of the Spring Festival. The China-Laos Railway is an important infrastructure connecting China and Laos and an important part of the Southeast Asian railway network. After opening to traffic, the mountains and roads from Kunming to Vientiane will no longer be high and the roads will no longer be long.

The China-Laos Railway is a landmark project for the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road". It starts from Kunming, China in the north and reaches Vientiane, the capital of Laos in the south. Construction took five years. In November 2015, the signing ceremony of the China-Laos Railway project was held in Beijing; In October 2021, the China-Laos Railway completed the entire track laying. At the end of November, the commissioning of the passenger service information system project of the Lao section of the China-Laos Railway was completed, and all 10 newly built passenger stations across the line were equipped with passenger service conditions. On December 3, the China-Laos Railway was officially opened to traffic.

It is reported that the entire China-Laos railway adopts Chinese technical standards and uses Chinese equipment. In China, it connects Kunming, Yuxi, Pu 'er, Xishuangbanna and other cities in Yunnan. Among them, Xishuangbanna is the last city passed by the China-Laos Railway in China, and the Mohan Port of the China-Laos Railway is located in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture.

After the opening of the China-Laos Railway, Yunnan, especially Xishuangbanna, has welcomed major benefits. As we all know, Yunnan is rich in cultural tourism resources, and Xishuangbanna is one of the popular tourist destinations. On October 28, Lonely Planet released its annual list of "2022 World's Best Travel Destinations", and Xishuangbanna became the only travel destination in China to be selected as the "Top Ten Best Travel Areas". The opening of the China-Laos Railway is of great significance to Xishuangbanna Prefecture in accelerating the construction of a world-famous tourist city, strengthening cultural tourism cooperation and exchanges with neighboring countries, and carrying out high-level and in-depth regional cooperation.

In order to fully seize the favorable opening and operation of the "China-Laos Railway", effectively combine "railway + tourism" to stimulate new changes, new opportunities, and new advantages in Xishuangbanna, and to spawn new industries, new business formats, and new models. Xishuangbanna named three "Xishuangbanna" trains, carried out linkage work with scenic spots and released special travel packages and launched special tourist routes.

2022 is the first year after the opening of the China-Laos Railway, and Xishuangbanna will usher in more development opportunities.

Xishuangbanna's development enters a fast track

In the era of high-speed rail, tracks are crucial. They can improve the accessibility of cities between regions, give full play to regional advantages, promote regional economic exchanges, and gradually narrow the economic gap between cities. With the rapid development of high-speed rail, we can have a more optimistic outlook for the economic development of cities along the route.

The opening of the China-Laos Railway has brought multiple benefits to Xishuangbanna.

First, location advantages have been further enhanced.The China-Laos Railway is an important project connecting my country's "Belt and Road" initiative with Laos's strategy of "transforming a land-locked country into a land-linked country". After opening to traffic, the China-Laos Railway will become the only completed railway in China's strategic layout in Southeast Asia. Yunnan is expected to become The fastest and most convenient sea route in the western region.

Xishuangbanna is a key node in this large sea corridor. In the grand strategic pattern of the "Belt and Road", Xishuangbanna is China's "southern gate" to connect with Southeast Asia, and its advantages in location and foreign economic exchanges have an irreplaceable position. Prior to this, Xishuangbanna's comprehensive transportation has been continuously developed and improved:

The domestic section of the Kunming International Corridor has achieved full speed; the annual passenger throughput of the airport has exceeded 5.5 million; and the Lancang River Fourth-level Channel can connect 500-ton ships by the end of the year. Coupled with the newly opened China-Laos Railway, Xishuangbanna has changed from the past to "ringing bells in the mountains and coming from horses" and has now entered the era of four-wheel drive three-dimensional transportation with all available "water, land, air and rail".

Second, industrial development has entered the fast lane.With the favorable foreign trade and export policies brought about by the country's "Belt and Road" construction and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, Xishuangbanna can turn around and embrace South Asia and Southeast Asia. Its location advantage is a development advantage.

Xishuangbanna is backed by a domestic consumption, export and investment market of 1.4 billion yuan, and faces 1.7 billion yuan foreign markets such as South Asia and Southeast Asia. There is huge room for consumption growth, infrastructure development and industrial development. Xishuangbanna has made efforts to promote the transformation of location advantages into development advantages.

At the Ninth Congress of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, the main leaders of the Xishuangbanna Prefecture Committee stated that in the next five years, Xishuangbanna will promote the integrated development of Mengla-Mohan and build the first city on the China-Laos border; focus on industrial cooperation and promote the open development of processing industry, logistics industry, and tourism; Mohan must be built into an important highway and railway port in the country.

One day before the opening of the China-Laos Railway, Xishuangbanna's investment and development had made significant progress. An investment promotion meeting for the opening of the China-Laos Railway was held hosted by the Party Committee and State Government of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture. 22 large companies including Yunnan Newspaper Media Group, Yunnan Construction Investment Group, China Shipbuilding Corporation and China Railway 16th Bureau Group attended the conference and signed contracts using electronic signature machines.

On December 5, 22 major projects in the China-Laos Railway Economic Belt in Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province were started. The 22 key projects started this time are based on the characteristics and advantages of Xishuangbanna Prefecture and involve transportation, logistics, industry, ecological environmental protection, etc. In multiple fields, the total investment reached 12 billion yuan, of which 6 are directly related to railways and railway economy.

Third, the cultural tourism market will explode. Xishuangbanna is one of the few Southeast Asian cities in China. It is famous for its magical tropical rainforest natural landscape and colorful ethnic customs. It is one of China's hot tourist cities. After the China-Laos Railway is opened to traffic, with the further improvement of traffic conditions, Xishuangbanna will have more people and capital flows, better policies, and the advantages of cultural tourism resources will be further highlighted.

The day after the opening of the China-Laos Railway, the number of tourists received in Xishuangbanna increased significantly thanks to the benefits of "railway + tourism"; on December 6, the "Xishuangbanna Golden Peacock Tourism" bullet train left Kunming South Railway Station. This was the first EMU named with a tourism and cultural theme since the opening of the China-Laos Railway. In the future, the "Xishuangbanna Golden Peacock Tourism" will showcase Xishuangbanna's specialty tourism products and routes to more people.

In addition to railways, at the policy level, the local government also attaches great importance to leveraging the advantages of Xishuangbanna's cultural tourism resources. At the Ninth Congress of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, it was proposed that in the next five years, Xishuangbanna Prefecture will take the opportunity of building "a world-famous forest park, a world-famous health tourism city, and a beautiful Chinese rainforest resort" to build Xishuangbanna into a world tourist city that has begun to take shape.

By then, Xishuangbanna's industrial pattern dominated by eco-tourism + health care and residence will basically take shape. The added value of the cultural tourism industry will account for more than 20% of GDP, and the total revenue will exceed 200 billion yuan.

In the future, as various developments in Xishuangbanna continue to advance in depth, this magical and beautiful land will be full of vitality, opportunities and stories.

"Get on the bus" in advance to boost development

It is not difficult to see that after the opening of the China-Laos Railway, Xishuangbanna is ushering in historic opportunities, especially in the field of culture and tourism. But opportunities are always reserved to those who are prepared, and Sunac is such a prepared person. In the past few years, Sunac has used a forward-looking vision to deeply cultivate Xishuangbanna and catch a ride on the China-Laos Railway in advance.

However, Sunac is not planning aggressively to "get the first move". Sunac's layout in Xishuangbanna is not blind, mainly focusing on Xishuangbanna's own resource advantages and Sunac Group's own advantages.

Xishuangbanna is the place where all things grow and the most complete preserved tropical ecosystem in China. It is known as the "Plant Kingdom","Animal Kingdom","Biological Gene Bank", and "An Emerald on the Crown of the Plant Kingdom". Among them, plant species account for 1/6 of the country's total, and animal species account for 1/4 of the country's total. Xishuangbanna is also one of the few places in the south where the spring lasts. The average annual temperature is about 21 degrees, the forest coverage rate is as high as 81.53%, the negative oxygen ions in the air are about 40000/cm ", and the per capita urban public green space area reaches 22.5mt/person.

Sunac is one of China's largest cultural and tourism industry operators and property owners. As a co-builder of China's beautiful city, Sunac has six business segments: real estate, services, culture and tourism, culture, conferences and exhibitions, and medical and health care.

This is extremely consistent with Xishuangbanna's future development needs. After all, in the future, Xishuangbanna will mainly rely on its own natural resource advantages and develop around the industrial pattern of eco-tourism + health care and living. Coupled with the continuous influx of people after the opening of the China-Laos Railway, Xishuangbanna There is also a great demand for high-quality residential products.

As a large-scale enterprise deeply involved in Xishuangbanna, Sunac has been deeply involved in the urban development of Xishuangbanna, giving full play to its own industrial advantages, and with the responsibility and responsibility of a city co-builder, it has built Sunac Xishuangbanna Tourist Resort and Global Sunac Guanlan Genting in Xishuangbanna. Many other projects have added new tourist and holiday landmarks to Xishuangbanna, promoted new development of the cultural tourism industry and human settlements upgrades.

In 2016, Sunac began to build Xishuangbanna Tourist Resort, which covers an area of approximately 7950 acres and has a total investment of approximately 40 billion yuan (1/4 of the urban area). As we all know, the real sojourn is not in the wilderness. Fireworks and fireworks are the guarantee of sojourn life. In fact, Xishuangbanna Tourism Resort has become a benchmark cultural tourism work through supporting pre-arranged and high-quality operations.

Xishuangbanna Tourism Resort is a one-stop travel and vacation kingdom with a wide variety of business formats. It has seven major residential property facilities, Rongchuang Mao, Bar Street, Class A hospitals, and living services from the K12 education system. Daixiu + Rongchuang Paradise + Mountain Hotels Group are for travel and vacation services, etc. It is reported that the seven supporting facilities of Xishuangbanna Tourist Resort were delivered in 2015 and have been in operation for 6 years, representing one of the most exciting ways of life and entertainment in Xishuangbanna.

In the course of many years of operation, the project has also achieved a series of achievements. Today, Xishuangbanna Tourist Resort has ranked first in sales in Banna for eight years, becoming Xishuangbanna's No. 1 living and residential market and local tourist business card. It has received a total of approximately 23 million tourists and provided a beautiful living and living life to nearly 23,000 owners in 354 cities.

The Global Sunac·Guanlan Genting project is a mid-mountain Dai courtyard product built by Sunac in Xishuangbanna. The project is located in the north of Jinghong City and is a new Dai architectural style. It has a river view on the first line of the Lancang River and mountains on three sides to sit and watch the original ecology of the rainforest. Natural resources, it is currently the only river view sloping Dai inn community on sale in Xishuangbanna, and it is also a high-quality wild luxury experience holiday destination on the Lancang River Economic Belt.

Different from other products in the market, Guanlan Genting is a typical project that combines "residence + investment". The B & Bs here can be called the current health investment A-shares. Under the impact of the epidemic, the overall occupancy rate of B & Bs across the country has declined sharply, but the annual average occupancy rate in Xishuangbanna is still as high as 48%, especially the supply of high-end B & Bs is in short supply.

In the next few years, Sunac's most noteworthy thing in Xishuangbanna is the Sunac Jiangxin Island project. This project is another large-scale and high-potential project after Sunac Xishuangbanna Tourist Resort. It covers a total area of about 12000 acres and has a total investment of over 50 billion yuan.

In terms of specific construction, Sunac Jiangxin Island integrates five strategic sectors: commercial port, residential and vacation, new industrial city, ecological culture, and life services. Special attention is paid to emphasizing the differences between cities and nature, focusing on the connection between regions and cultures, and relying on the cultures of China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to create a popularity center for the project, becoming a foreign tourists to understand Chinese national culture and domestic tourists to experience pure Southeast Asian life. The first stop.

It is understood that the first phase of the project, Lanmei Cultural City covers an area of approximately 1852 acres, and the planning theme is "Water Rainforest, Extreme Island Residence". It is expected to welcome a living room, B & B and inn community, Dai Mengshui Street, star hotel group, etc. Business formats have brought the world's attention to Xishuangbanna once again.

From a comprehensive cultural tourism market to high-quality residential buildings, Sunac's layout in Xishuangbanna closely follows the needs of the city at every step, serving the development needs of Xishuangbanna's cultural tourism industry and the growing demand for high-quality living. Sunac's deep cultivation of Xishuangbanna is also to provide supporting facilities for the entire city and share happiness with the entire city, thereby promoting urban development, allowing Xishuangbanna, an "ideal and magical land", to accompany the opening of the China-Laos Railway and the "Belt and Road"."The pace of" has become a hot spot for openness and development.