Research on China-Vietnam Border Trade

Author: Fan Honggui, Liu Zhiqiang
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This book provides a systematic discussion and analysis of the origins, development, and current state of China-Vietnam border trade, with slightly more detail on the current state. It covers both regular and irregular border trade. While the book takes a macro perspective, it also includes chapters that describe the emergence and development of specific border towns or markets, illustrating how the production development in border areas leads to surplus products, which in turn gives rise to border trade. If the inland economy does not develop, there will be no surplus products in the border areas, and thus no border trade. Once border trade emerges, its development and prosperity rely on support from the inland areas, creating a symbiotic relationship. Border trade is closely linked to the lives of border residents, and this book pays great attention to the interests and relationships between border trade and border residents. Most of the border residents in China-Vietnam are ethnic minorities. Although they live in different countries, they share blood and marriage ties, which are also discussed in this book.