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 km 2, 4,341 m rai Populations = 1,013,590 peoples 2 rivers = Lam-pao river & Chee river 1 Dam = Lam-pao Dam (1,500 m m 3 )

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) Entrepreneurs Commerce System Human resource Infrastructure StrategyEfficiency ServiceEfficiency GovernmentEfficiency OrganisationEfficiency

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

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