5. Expand the volume of trade encouraging Yunnan enterprises to go out the region and set up commodity centers or international wholesale markets in the main cities of the GMS. The Kunming Hi-tech Development Co. Should be encouraged to establish development zones and commodity centers in north Thailand’s Chiang Rai province. Furthermore, trade procedures should be simplified by rationalizing customs and visa procedures, adopting joint customs and quarantine inspection, and streamlining procedures for the movement of goods and people so as to trade. These “software’’ measures should be accompanied by “hardware’’ projects relating to the comprehensive infrastructure that needs to be set up in major cities and ports (Kunming, Mohan, Ruili)