HO CHI MINH CITY -- China has been the driving force behind the massive infrastructure projects in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS) during the past five years, according to a Vietnamese expert. In an interview with Xinhua on Wednesday, Dr. Pham Sy Thanh, director of the Chinese Economic Studies Program under the Vietnam Economic Policy Research Institute, said that since 1992, when the Asian Development Bank (ADB) implemented a number of GMS development programs, China has made great efforts to connect the Chinese province of Yunnan and south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region with the GMS countries. Thanh said that realizing the demand for capital for infrastructure...
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