THE 5th Meeting of the Working Group on Trans­port Cooperation under the China-Myanmar Economic Cooperation Committee was held yesterday morning at the Wyndham Grand Yangon Hotel in Yangon.

Attending the meeting were officials from the Chi­na-Myanmar Economic Coop­eration Committee, chairman of the Transport Collabora­tion Working Group Perma­nent Secretary of Transport and Communications U Win Khant, members of relevant ministries, as well as Mr Wang Xing Xing, the deputy director-general of the Min­istry of Transport of the Peo­ple’s Republic of China, and other officials.

During the meeting, discussions were held on the implementation of crit­ical projects under the Chi­na-Myanmar Economic Co­operation Plan, cooperation on maritime education and training between China and Myanmar, and collaboration on human resource develop­ment and capacity building.

After the meeting, the Chinese delegation visited the international port jet­ties in Thilawa, Yangon, for a study tour.

The China-Myanmar Economic Cooperation Committee was established in 2018, and since 2019, the Transport Collaboration Working Group, one of the 12 working groups under the committee, has held meet­ings annually. — MNA/KZL