Business Introduction,Business Networking Strategy, Future Expansion, Opportunities and Challenges

Dr. Proramate Sansongsak, Board member of Chamber of Commerce, Kalasin, Thailand

Kalasin

Area = 6,946 km2 , 4,341 m raiPopulations = 1,013,590 peoples2 rivers = Lam-pao river & Chee river1 Dam = Lam-pao Dam (1,500 m m3)

Strategy-focused Kalasin’s Organisation (I)

• Vision = Business improved & sustainable

• Purpose or Goal = Business expansion & Stability

• Measurement = % Gross Provincial Products (GPP)

Strategy-focused Kalasin’s Organisation (II)

• Target = improved strongly for Kalasin’s commerce

• Strategic Initiatives

Kalasin’s Commerce Strategy

Ministry of Commerce

Stakeholder Opinion

Kalasin Province Strategy

Strategy-focused Kalasin’s Organisation (III)

EntrepreneursEntrepreneurs Commerce Commerce SystemSystem

Human Human resourceresource InfrastructureInfrastructure

StrategyStrategy

EfficiencyEfficiency

ServiceService

EfficiencyEfficiency

Government Government

EfficiencyEfficiency

OrganisationOrganisation

EfficiencyEfficiency

Opportunities and Challenges

To be chaired by the provincial People’s Committee, will create new opportunities for

localities of Burma, Việt Nam, Laos and Thailand along the corridor to accelerate their

development, coordinate their policies, improve business environment, and foster trade and

tourism.

East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) Myanmar –Thailand – Lao - Vietnam

Kalasin’s & EWEC

Kalasin

78 Km 178 Km

1,450 Km

Component of Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) Economic Corridor

International Economic Arrangement and Trade Cooperation

International Economic Cooperation

The Economic Corridor Approach

• Geographic & Strategic Information

• Infrastructure & Facilities

• Development Strategy

• Available Resource Industry

• Logistics Flow, Network & Planning

• Global Chain & Local Links

Global Value Chain :EWEC & Kalasin Province

Strategy of East-Weat Economic Corridors & Kalasin

•Seeks to improve and enhance investments in

–Transport–Energy–Telecommunications

•Economic Corridor create the exchange of–Economic activity–Cultural activity –Social activity

Economic Activity (I)•Logistic and Network

–Transportation–Communication

•Trade–Boarder Trade–International trade

•Freely resource mobilization–Human Resource–Physical Resource

Economic Activity (II)•Tourism

–Domestic Tourism–Trans Boundary Tourism

•Inbound•Outbound

•Investment / FDI–Private Investment–State Investment

•Urbanization/ Sanitary Improvement

Economic Activity (III)• Employment and Job Opportunity

– Ethnics

– Training

• Educational Exchange– Private

– State

Thank you very much

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