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The Role of Chiangrai in North‐South
Economic Corridor
Presented by
Mr. Phinij HarnphanichChiangrai’ s Vice Governor
GEOGRAPHY
Chiang Rai is Thailand’s most northernmost province
and a beauty it really is. It is situated on the Kok River
basin well above sea level with an area of some 11678
square kilometres. It is about 829 kilometres from
Bangkok. Mostly mountainous, it reaches the mae Khong
River to the north and borders on both Myanmar and
Loas.
The views expressed in this paper/presentation are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or
policies of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), or its Board of Governors, or the governments they represent. ADB doesnot guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequence of their
use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms.
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Chiangrai’s Border Trade Value
Year 2008 Year 2009 Year 2010
Value Growth Rate
%
Value Growth Rate
%
Value Growth Rate
%
Imports 2,505 -0.08 2,603 3.91 3,071 17.98
Exports 11,208 12.02 11,797 5.25 18,006 52.63
Total
Value
13,713 9.6 14,400 5.00 21,077 46.31
Unit : Million Baths
Border Trade Value of Chiangrai with Other countries
During January to December 2010
Unit : Million Baht
Country
Trade Value During January to December 2010
Jan-Dec.
2009
Percentage
Comparison
Between 2009
and 2010Import Export Balance of
Trade
Total
China 2,255.51 3,4250.02 1,169.51 5,680.53 5,156.73 10.16 %
Myanmar 219.79 9,969.56 9,749.77 10,189.35 6,335.11 60.84 %
Laos 507.75 2,459.13 1,951.38 2,966.88 2,626.23 79.04 %
Total 3,071.42 18,005.73 14,934 21,077.15 14,400.21 46.37 %
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Yangon
Lao PDR
PRC Kunming
Danang
Gulf of
Thailand
Andaman Sea
Vietnam
Myanmar
BKK.
Special EconomicZone in Chiangrai
Special Economic
Zone in savannakhet
Special Economic
Zone in Tak
Industrial Estate Hochiminh City
Cambodia
Hai Phong
India
Malaysia
• GMS เช อมโยงภมภาคผาน Economic
Corridor ภายใตยทธศาสตร 3 C
Connectivity
Competitiveness
Community
SBEZ
Southern Economic Corridor
East-West Economic Corridor
N- S Economic Corridor
special economic zone setting in ACMECS และ GMS
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JinghongJinghong
chiangraichiangrai
KhunmingKhunming
Contact route Myanmar, Laos, ChinaContact route Myanmar, Laos, China
393 KM.393 KM.260 km. - Myanmar border.260 km. - Myanmar border.
493 km.493 km.
Luang Nam Tha
R3A
Luang Nam Tha
R3A
Chiang tungR3B
Chiang tungR3B
344 km. – Jinghong Port344 km. – Jinghong Port
700 km.700 km.
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Chiangrai Province
needs
to
take
the
role
as
“the leader” of the provincial group”
Co-plan the developmental strategies together amongthe involved provinces for developing the route as astandard trading track
Chiangrai Province is the pioneer of thisdevelopmental movement. Therefore, the previous
experiences can be transferred to other regions
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The important obstacles for the development of
Western Route of Chiangrai Province
•The relevancy of policy and agreement among the
countries.
•The relevancy of the developmental strategies at
national level.
•The emphasis of infrastructures without management,
public policy, and the connection of those
infrastructures.
•The infeasible investment of private sectors - private
organizations lack confidence and have some limitations of their
capabilities in various aspects, especially those of the local investors.
•Limited human resources at provincial level – this causes the
investment opportunity to change to the more capable sectors.
The important problems affecting long‐term
development
•The lack of developmental working plan integration,
including the systemic evaluation.
•The affect on national securities.
•The lack of balanced income and benefit distribution
between the investors and the natural resources
owners, for example, the use of land and forest.
•Social problems caused by the urgent development
leading to materialism and urbanization and it
probably cause the extinction of traditional cultures of
Chiangrai.
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investment promotion plans
a. Agricultural industry
b. Tourism
c. Logistics
Boosting the high quality of agricultural products andtransforming of agricultural products emphasizing greenindustrialization
development emphasize the natural tourism, historical tourism,and cultural tourism with the completed infrastructures,services and facilities and promotion of tourism connection
The promotion of logistics networks within the province tolink with the transportation networks in Greater Mekong
Sub-region areas in order to be well prepared for thedistribution of business sectors and tourist to other sectionsof North-South economic corridor is focused
Supporting and facility
for the development of the Western Route
(connection between Kunming –Bangkok)
● The investment promotion or investing conditions inorder to increase the region capabilities and makeChiangrai become “the most convenient gate toregional areas”
● The grant of special right and the promotion of thegoods and products of Chiangrai
● Academic assistance and related information foreconomic development in the region
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The appropriate strategy for initiating the close corporation
between the organizations located in the Western Route of the province
drawing up the committee as working
members from related organizations situatedin the North-South economic corridor
The first strategy
The appropriate strategy for initiating the close corporation
between the organizations located in the Western Route of the province
The establishment of working section is implanted to be
responsible for public relations with the authority indrawing coordination from the provincial working
sections and those from the neighboring countries orthe members of GMS.
The second strategy