The poverty alleviation plan includes five large projects aimed at improving infrastructure facilities. They involve soil improvement and water conservancy, electric power, roads and green belt building. Upon the completion of the projects, the province will solve the problem of the shortage of grain, water, electric power and roads and improve ecological conditions. Foreign trade Yunnan has trade contacts with more than 70 countries and regions in the world. It mainly exports tobacco, machinery and electrical equipment, chemical and agricultural products and non-ferrous metals.
Pillar industries Four pillar industries involve tobacco, biology, mining and tourism.
Second-level railways include those from Guangtong to Dali, and from Kunyang to Yuxinan. The province has formed a network of communication lines radiating from Kunming to Sichuan and Guizhou provinces and Guangxi and Tibet autonomous regions, and further on to Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. In 1995, the province put an investment of 171 million yuan to add another 807 km of navigation lines. It built 2 wharfs with an annual handling capacity of 300,000-400,000 tons each and 4 wharfs with an annual handling capacity of 100,000 tons each. Projects wanting foreign investment Yunnan Province welcomes foreigners, overseas Chinese and compatriots from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao to invest in all the economic activities allowed and encouraged by the central government's industrial policy.