Southwest China is one the regions in China with great potentials for economic development.
It covers an area of two million five hundred and seventy thousand square kilometers and is inhabited by two hundred million people. Bordering Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and neighboring Bhutan, Nepal and India, the region is a gateway to the South and Southeast Asia. K unming Fair'98 will hold exhibitions and negotiations covering import and export, foreign investment, technology import, international economic and technical cooperation, border trade and etc. Each fair attracted more than five thousand business guests form nearly fifty countries and one thousand two hundred companies and enterprises form over twenty provinces and cities in China. The business volume of the past five sessions including import and export, foreign investment, international economic and technical cooperation, border trade totals 7.5 billion US dollars.