Openness is a distinctive feature of Chinese-style modernization. Building a center of radiation to South and Southeast Asia is a new, new orientation, and new mission that the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has set for Yunnan. In March 2025, Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Yunnan again and required it to build a center of radiation to South and Southeast Asia. We must follow the blueprint drawn by General Secretary Xi Jin, benchmark high-level international opening-up rules, pragmatically promote cooperation with South and Southeast Asian countries, accelerate the construction of the center of radiation, promote mutual benefit and winwin, and help promote the building of an Asian community with a shared future.

Improve the capacity and level of the construction of the center of radiation. Since the 8th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed that China's door to opening up will not be closed, but will only open wider and wider. is necessary to continuously expand high-level opening-up. In January 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Yunnan and pointed out that it is hoped Yunnan will actively serve and integrate into the national development strategy, blaze a path of leapfrog development, strive to become a demonstration area for national unity and progress, a in the construction of ecological civilization, and a center of radiation to South and Southeast Asia, and write a good chapter of the Chinese Dream in Yunnan. Thus, the construction the center of radiation has become a new orientation and mission of Yunnan's opening up to the outside world as assigned by the country. In January 2020 General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Yunnan and clearly required that it actively serve and integrate into the major national development strategy, promote major development with a big opening-up, and the construction of the international land passage connecting the surrounding countries; strive to make new progress in building the demonstration area for national unity and progress, the pioneer in the construction of ecological, and the center of radiation to South and Southeast Asia. In March of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Yunnan again and emphasized the need to actively promote highlevel opening-up and build a center of radiation to South and Southeast Asia. The fact that General Secretary Xi Jinping has made three consecutive requests for Yunnan to build a center fully demonstrates his high importance to this issue.

The Yunnan provincial Party committee and provincial government bear in mind the entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping actively serve and integrate into the national development strategy, continuously strengthen policy communication, infrastructure connectivity, trade unimpeded, financial integration, and people-to-people exchanges with countries in and Southeast Asia, vigorously build mechanisms, set up platforms, focus on industries, promote cooperation, and promote openness, effectively promoting the economic and social development of Yunnan. "Seven Out Provincial, Five Out National" highway network, "Eight Out Provincial, Five Out National" railway network, "Two Networks and One Hub air network, "Two Out Provincial, Three Out National" water transport network, information network and energy network facing South and Southeast Asia have been continuously improved, the construction of China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor and the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor has been accelerated, the "demonstration effect" of China-Laos Railway has become apparent, the construction of the China (Yunnan) Pilot Free Trade Zone, Ruili and other international ports and cities, and the M-Mudeng and other economic cooperation zones have been fully promoted, trade volume has been increasing, and hundreds of "small and beautiful" people's livelihood projects have been in neighboring countries, bringing real benefits to countries in South and Southeast Asia.
However, it should also be seen that there is still a big gap between the level of Ynan's opening up and the requirements of the Party Central Committee. It is necessary to further enhance a sense of urgency, responsibility and mission, fully implement the new development concept, the "3815" strategic development goal put forward by the Yunnan provincial Party committee, promote the resource economy, the park economy, and the port economy as a, speed up the process of marketization, industrialization, legalization, ecologicalization, and digitalization, strive to promote high-level opening up, accelerate the construction of a radiation facing South and Southeast Asia, and vigorously expand the space for development. It is necessary to increase the efforts to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, actively develop border trade, transit, and processing trade, continuously expand the export of Yunnan's characteristic and advantageous products and intermediates, and expand and strengthen foreign trade. It is necessary to improve the service system for foreign trade, encourage the development of cross-border e-commerce, actively develop service trade, green trade, and digital trade, and continuously promote the import of from border trade and their processing in place. It is necessary to strengthen the cultivation of export-oriented industries, actively build a new development pattern of "double cycles", strive to the ability of economic radiation, and effectively respond to external risks and challenges.
It is necessary to vigorously develop the port economy. At present, the number of ports open Yunnan has reached 28, and a "1 3 4 N" port development pattern has been formed, with the Kunming International Hub Port as the, the Mohan, Hekou, Ruili key hub ports as the leader, the Qingshuihe, Houqiao, Tianbao, Gulei Port logistics node ports as the support, and other ordinary ports and border ports are coordinated and developed.