Joint Efforts for Mutual Growth
— ACHC Donates 10 million Kyats to Shan People of Northern Myanmar

On December 15, 2019, Upstream Ayeyawady Confluence Basin Hydropower Co., Ltd. (ACHC) donated 10 million kyats to Shan Literature and Culture Committee to help the Shan people to inherit and carry forward their language and culture and celebrate the traditional New Year of the Shan.

The Shan people are diligent, virtuous, smart and brave; they are of the same ancestry as China’s Dai ethnic group. Living across the border, both nationalities have established profound paukphaw with each other, said Ping Weiwei, director of ACHC’s Kachin State Office, at the donation ceremony. The company has kept friendly communication with the Shan people. After learning that their leaders are putting great efforts on the training of the Shan language and inheriting the Shan culture, the company has worked on helping the Shan people in northern Myanmar and the Dai people in China to break through cross-border exchange channels for them to have closer communication with each other.

Shan Literature and Culture Committee Chairman Daw Khin Pyon Yi expressed his gratitude to ACHC for the solicitude and warmth it had brought to the Shan people. He said the Shan would maintain good communication with ACHC. Under joint efforts for mutual growth, they hope ACHC will continue to provide support and help for the development of the Shan.

More than 40 guests, including members of the Shan Literature and Culture Committee, members of the Shan Affairs Committee and other young people of the Shan, were present at the donation ceremony.