Kunming institution seeks to promote exchanges with neighbors in the region

Yunnan University, the most prestigious school in the province, is to boost its international studies by building a more-diverse curriculum and forging closer ties across South and Southeast Asia.

That is the message from its president, Lin Wenxun, who has pledged to make the best of Yunnan's geographic advantage to develop international studies with the assistance of language education such as Vietnamese, Laotian and Thai.