Seizing the historical opportunity of world multi-polarization and promoting global openness and cooperation are important features of today's global economic and trade exchanges and cooperation. The supply chain of the border industry chain is also becoming a major "lifeline" for promoting development and opening up. It is very important to accelerate the formation of a "community of destiny" with neighboring countries and regions, and to jointly cope with the problems and challenges facing development! As important provinces along the new western land-sea corridor, Xinjiang, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places are also important border provinces in China, all of which play an important supporting role in the high-quality development of border regions in the new era and the major achievements in development and opening up, and have become important in promoting international economic and trade cooperation and people-to-people exchanges. important window. The construction of border economic cooperation zones and cross-border economic cooperation zones (hereinafter collectively referred to as border (cross) combined zones) is an important decision made by the state on border opening. Based on the new development stage, implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, promote the development level of the border (cross) area, and create an important node and platform for the opening of the border area to the outside world.
To this end, my country is studying and improving the open layout along the border. supports the integration of Xinjiang border (cross) area opening into the overall layout of the country's westward opening. Promote the Guangxi border cooperation area to build an open and cooperative highland for ASEAN, Yunnan border (cross) cooperation area to build an important open platform for the radiation center of South Asia, Southeast Asia, Heilongjiang , Liaoning , Jilin , and Inner Mongolia border cooperation area to further develop Play a role in the open frontier of northeast . Standardize and promote the construction of the Chinese side of the China-Laos Mohan-Boding Economic Cooperation Zone.
Optimize and stabilize the supply chain of the border industry chain. will give better play to the role of border (cross) co-regions in connecting domestic and foreign markets, coordinating the opening of inland borders, and expanding and extending the industrial chain and supply chain. Promote the innovation and development of border trade and logistics industry in border (cross) areas, vigorously promote the landing processing of imported resources and agricultural products, and expand and strengthen characteristic and advantageous industries.Accelerate the updating and technological transformation of manufacturing equipment, give play to the leading role of leading enterprises and supporting small, medium and micro enterprises, and improve the ability to undertake the transfer of inland industries. Strengthen the cooperation between local commercial authorities, border (cross-) combined areas and local ports, transportation, customs, immigration and other departments, and enhance the combined transportation, transshipment and distribution capabilities of border (cross-) combined areas as domestic and overseas logistics nodes, Promote cooperation with overseas warehouses, promote the construction of border commodity circulation and distribution systems, and strengthen logistics guarantees. Research and promote the cooperation and linkage of the industrial chain and supply chain of the border (cross) cooperation zone and the overseas economic and trade cooperation zone.
It is reported that my country will support related services to jointly build the “Belt and Road” and the national regional coordinated development strategy , seize the opportunity to negotiate and sign high-level free trade agreements and regional trade agreements with neighboring countries, and continue to deepen border (cross) The joint area has economic and trade exchanges with neighboring countries and regions such as Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos and other neighboring countries and regions. Give play to the role of the coordination mechanism of the China-Kazakhstan Horgos International Border Cooperation Center and the China-Laos Mohan-Boding Economic Cooperation Zone, and improve the three-level linkage working mechanism.
What kind of borders do Xinjiang, Guangxi, and Yunnan have? Let's take a look below:
Xinjiang: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, referred to as "Xin", the capital Urumqi , located in northwest China , is one of the five ethnic minority autonomous regions in China. With an area of over 1.6 million square kilometers, it is the largest provincial administrative region in China, accounting for one-sixth of China's total land area. For the seventh time in 2020, the general resident population of the country was 25.8523 million.Xinjiang is located in the hinterland of the Eurasian continent, with a land border of more than 5,600 kilometers. It borders eight countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, India, and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The important passage of the ancient Silk Road, mainly inhabited by Han, Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, Mongolian, Kirgiz, Xibe, Tajik, Uzbek, Manchu, Daur, Tatar, Russian and other ethnic groups.
Yunnan: Yunnan Province, referred to as "Dian" or "Cloud", is located in the southwestern border of China, and the Tropic of Cancer traverses the southern part of the province. The province has a total land area of 394,100 square kilometers, accounting for 4.1% of the country's total land area. %, ranking 8th in the country. It is China's window to Southeast Asia and South Asia and portal . It is located in the junction of China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. It has 26 ports, including first-class ports 20, second-class ports 6, and Myanmar. , Vietnam and Laos are bordered; it is connected to Thailand and Cambodia through the Lancang River—the Mekong River, and is adjacent to Malaysia, Singapore, India, Bangladesh and other countries. Yunnan is one of the provinces with the largest number of neighboring countries in my country. The historically famous "Stilwell Highway" and "Hump Route" pass through Yunnan, which borders Myanmar in the west and Laos and Vietnam in the south. Yunnan is one of the provinces with the longest borders in the country, with 25 border counties in 8 states (cities) bordering Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam respectively.
Guangxi: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is located in the southern Xinjiang of the motherland, and the Tropic of Cancer traverses the middle. It is connected to Guangdong Province in the east, Beibu Gulf in the south, and Hainan Province across the sea, adjacent to Yunnan Province in the west, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the southwest.The land area of the administrative region is 237,600 square kilometers, and the sea area of Beibu Gulf is about 40,000 square kilometers. The Guangxi mainland coastline starts from Zhushan Port, Zhushan Street, Dongxing City, on the border of Guangxi and Vietnam in the west, and ends at Yingluo Port on the border of Guangxi and Guangdong in the east, with a total length of 1628.6 kilometers. Guangxi is an important gateway for open cooperation between China and ASEAN countries, and an international gateway hub for the entry and exit of ASEAN through the new western land-sea passage. The completion of the China- ASEAN Free Trade Area will create an economic zone with 1.8 billion consumers, a GDP of nearly 2 trillion U.S. dollars, and a total trade volume of 1.2 trillion U.S. dollars. In terms of population, it will be the largest free trade area in the world; in terms of economic scale, it will be the third largest free trade area in the world after EU and North American Free Trade Area , consisting of China and ASEAN 10 It is the third largest free trade area in the world jointly created by China and the largest free trade area composed of developing countries.