In Southern Yunnan  the Mekong (or Lancang as it is known in China) flows through Jinghong.  Here the Lancang provides electricity to neighboring Thailand while an ethnic minority produces rubber.

This film is part of the Mekong Diaries series for Radio Free Asia; Goodmorningbeautiful travelled the length of the Mekong, the world’s last wild great river, as the forces of development change it forever.

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