It is also hoping to revive the project of $ 3.6 billion Myitsone Dam, which was suspended in 2011 and is a major source of friction between the two countries.
China sees Myanmar as a strategic asset, so that some policymakers see long coastline of Myanmar as the west coast of China. Its position close to the Indian Ocean provides a shortcut for imports of oil and gas from the Middle East, and rich mineral deposits and proximity make it a logical part of the sphere of influence on the continent from Southeast Asia to China.
While China has recently built pipelines for oil and gas from Myanmar's coast in southern China and has access to the Kyaukpyu port on the Bay of Bengal, trade between the two nations fell in 2015, and relations cooled during the transition of five years from a military junta, which China supported, in elections last year.
both parties seek to repair the friendship, although Aung San Suu Kyi, who has rented the old tradition of a neutral foreign policy is likely to be vigilant that China is not too authoritarian.
In the days before his visit, Aung San Suu Kyi has sought to ease tensions on the suspension of Chinese-funded Myitsone Dam. After naming a commission of 20 members to examine the suspension and to look at other hydroelectric projects, can tell China that Myanmar no longer a closed mind on the project, according to analysts.
"It needs good relations with China, but were it approves the dam, it would lose the massive domestic support from many groups," said David I. Steinberg, distinguished professor emeritus at Georgetown University. The new panel is a clever way to divert pressure on it from China and its national constituency, he said
The Commission may decide the dam -. That Aung San Suu Kyi has stood as leader of the opposition because of the environmental impact that would have on the main artery of the nation, the Irrawaddy river - should not be built. But it would most likely consider other projects that would be in China's taste, Mr. Steinberg said.
For its part, Beijing has become more flexible on the dam, opening the way to easing tensions, analysts said.
negotiations are under way for Myanmar to pay China if the dam is not built, or to use the money for other projects, officials close to Aung San Suu Kyi said . The figures have already been put on the table, they said, including $ 800 million in compensation to China if the dam is not built, they said.
In exchange, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi said that she wants the Chinese a number of small hydropower projects that are less of a threat to the environment and enjoy popular support, its door Floor-U Zaw Htay said.
"In the end, the dam could be interrupted, resumed, adjusted, replaced by another project, or perhaps there are other ideas," said Fan Hongwei, a . Myanmar expert Xiamen University
as part of its ambition to ensure better access to the Indian ocean, China proposed a new trade route - a stream of town of Bhamo in northern Myanmar in the Irrawaddy delta - and this is likely to come to the talks in Beijing, officials said Myanmar
Derek J. Mitchell, former US ambassador to. Myanmar, said Washington recognized the urgent need for the country's physical infrastructure and had never objected deliver large Chinese infrastructure projects in Myanmar as long as they are transparent, and acceptable to the people the environment, as the new government said.
It would also be preferable for the infrastructure that has crossed borders Myanmar connected to the wider region and not only in China, Mr. Mitchell said.
one of the major objectives of Aung San Suu Kyi is to seek help from China as it begins peace talks on conflicts in northern Myanmar between ethnic groups and the military.
small wars roiling there has long been a barrier to economic development in the region, and Aung San Suu Kyi has scheduled a recovery meeting of peace called Panglong Conference, to August 31, she offered China a mediator, the Myanmar officials involved in the talks said.
Two groups in northern Myanmar near the Chinese border - the Kachin and Wa, who are of Chinese origin. - Receive weapons across the border
Army of Kachin Independence and United Wa State Army, the largest ethnic army in Myanmar, refused to sign a cease-fire last year. At the time, a negotiator of the Burmese government said China had pressured the two groups along its border not to sign the agreement in order to exert more influence on them.
By giving China a key role in the talks, to be held in the capital, Naypyidaw, Aung San Suu Kyi calls for China to cease arms shipments, a Myanmar official involved in the said process .
Recent interviews with a flurry of Chinese officials who visited Myanmar - including the Minister of State Security Geng Huichang; the head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China, Song Tao; and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi -. focused on the role of China in the restoration of peace, the official said
"China holds a lot of the key to end decades of armed conflict," said Thant Myint Mr. -U. "the question is what the price of the increase in China's dependence will."
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