Yunnan Party chief calls for further Dianchi Lake restoration during Kunming visit

Originally reported November 13, 2026. Mo Gaoyi, Yunnan’s provincial Communist Party secretary, visited Kunming on November 13 to discuss the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Communist Party Central Committee and inspect local projects, according to The Paper’s report.

At the Xinghai and Wangguan wetlands beside Dianchi Lake, Mo reviewed water quality and wetland restoration work. He said Kunming had made notable progress in protecting the lake and called for continued efforts to improve water quality, protect wetlands, upgrade the lakeside greenway and control sewage. He also said Dianchi should become a demonstration site for putting Xi Jinping’s ecological-civilization principles into practice.

Mo then visited the China Railway United International Containers Kunming terminal, where freight bound for the China–Laos Railway was being loaded. He called for stronger transport links, development along the railway, industrial growth around border crossings and more efficient customs clearance. These were priorities he set out during the visit, not newly enacted measures.

Liu Hongjian, Yunnan’s deputy provincial Party secretary and Kunming’s Party secretary, also took part.