Xu Yong, Guo Laixi, Liu Shenghe
The lower reaches of the Lancang River basin is located in the southwest China, bounded by upper Laos and Burma, and includes the Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous Prefecture, Simao Prefecture and Lingcang Prefecture in Yunnan Province.In this location the mountainous environment is abundant in water, tour, mineral and biological resources, but the economy have been rather primitive.In recent years, the government of China takes its development seriously along with the rise of international new development and study on the Lancang-Mekong river.The development planning of the Lower reaches of the Lancang river basin was placed on the priority programme for China's Agenda 21 in 1993.And in 1994, the government of China established the national coordinaion group which coordinates international affairs of the target region to cooperate with Laos, Burma, Thailand and Viet Nam in study and development planning.We think that transportation is the basic industry and the heart to promote the development of the Lower reaches of the Lancang river basin.Therefore, this paper includes some sections BS follows.Firstly, the paper demonstrates the necessity of enhancing water and land transportation construction of the Lower reaches of the Lancang river basin, and analyses the present situations and existing problems of transportation development in the target region.Secondly, the paper forecasts the inernational economic freight volume and goods structure between Yunnan Province of China and the countries of the southeast Asia, and estimates the tourist number to the Xishuangbanna in 2000.Thirdly, the paper demonstrates that the Lower reaches of the Lancang river basin is the strategic passageway of economic cooperation and international trade between the southwest China and the southeast Asia.The transport development includes dredging waterways of the Lancang Mekong river, building the new railroad of Xiangyun-Simao-Jinghong-Mohan, remaking 8 improtant roads, opening up domestic air(4 lines) and international air (5 lines).Lastly, the paper advances and discusses some proposals of accelerating transport system construction of the target region.