Guangxi and Laos jointly build forestry industrial park

China News Service, Nanning, October 29th (Song Xiaoqiu) The Forestry Bureau of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region introduced on the 29th that the "China (Guangxi) and Laos Jointly Established Forestry Industrial Park Master Plan" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") was officially issued recently.

The "Plan" closely follows the main line of building a China-Laos community with a shared future, gives full play to Guangxi's role as a "bridgehead" for open cooperation with ASEAN and its forestry industry advantages, connects Laos' forestry resource advantages with global market demand, and clarifies the "mission statement" and "road map" for the construction of the China-Laos forestry industrial park, providing scientific guidance for deepening China-Laos forestry industry chain cooperation.

The "Plan" clearly adheres to the principles of government guidance, market leadership, ecological priority, and green sustainability, and proposes to anchor the cooperation goal of "tens of millions of acres of planting, hundreds of billions of yuan in output value". From 2026 to 2055, a total of 82.8 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) will be invested to cultivate forest resources. With an area of 11.15 million acres, the park's output value will reach 100.8 billion yuan by 2055. It strives to build the forestry industry park into a demonstration model for shared prosperity of China-ASEAN Community of Shared Future, a demonstration model for sustainable development of the green "One Belt and One Road", and a typical case of global response to climate change and poverty reduction.

The "Plan" relies on the resource endowments of Laos' Vientiane City and eight provinces and cities including Luang Prabang and Oudomxay, and focuses on the "three-industry integration" of seedling cultivation, forestry production, and modern services. It focuses on the five key industrial chains of forest resource management, understory Chinese medicinal materials, spices and flavors, forest fertilizers, and forestry machinery, forming a new pattern of green forestry cooperation and development with agglomeration, sector collaboration, and chain mutual promotion.

It is reported that the "Plan" is a specific measure to implement forestry cooperation between China and Laos. In the early stage, the Forestry Bureau of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Lao National Forestry Administration signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation to promote the expansion of forestry cooperation between the two parties to a higher level and wider areas.