Investing In Yunnan

Yunnan has always been an enigmatic province; encompassing four major Chinese minorities influenced by Vietnam, India, Burma and Tibet, and home to the very eastern end of the Himalayan ranges, kynghidongduong.vn it is never a simple region to categorize.

However, due to booming trade with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) free trade area, the central government has begun to pay more attention to China's most southwest province. The priority has been upgrading Yunnan's transport links internationally in order to connect it to countries across the ASEAN region and to its provincial neighbors within China.


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Add to that ASEAN's massive bilateral trade figure with China, some US$205 billion, and Yunnan, rather like Guangxi, starts to become attractive when considering multilateral trade with ASEAN members from cities such as Kunming. Indeed, Yunnan's trade with its neighboring regions is growing:

Yunnan's only drawback is that it is landlocked. The nearest Chinese ports are at Qinzhou, Guangxi to the east, but rail connections are improving directly to Hanoi, tour Lệ Giang with freight crossing the borders at Pingxiang, and Hekou. Only Hekou is open to non-Chinese Vietnamese. It should also be noted that Yunnan's largest trade partner is Hong Kong, followed by Myanmar, South Korea, the United States and Japan. Trade with Vietnam and India is expected to grow dramatically in the near future as transportation links open up.

Major highways in Yunnan connect to Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan and Tibet. In the past few years Yunnan has built more new roads than any other province in China. The target is to connect all major towns and neighboring capitals by 2010, and to complete a high-speed network by 2020. There are also highways going to Myanmar, Thailand (through neighboring Laos), and Vietnam. In addition, India and China will redevelop and reopen the Stilwell Road, which will connect Kunming with Ledo in Northeast India. The road will improve links between Yunnan and India dramatically and reduce the current trade route between India and tour shangrila China by 75 percent. At present, goods must first be transported to Guangxi or Guangdong and then travel to India by ship – a journey of 6,000 kilometers. When the road is upgraded and completed (expected 2016) then Kunming will start to boom even more.







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