（InKunming Lexi）Kunming Area of China (Yunnan) Pilot Free Trade Zone insists on trying first and gives full play to the overlapping advantage of policies in the two regions, and reproduces the achievements of Kunming Area in reform and innovation in Laos Vientiane Saysettha Development Zone (hereinafter referred to as SDZ) in priority. At present, it has achieved a two-way free flow of cross-border personnel, cross-border capacity, cross-border logistics, cross-border finance, cross-border trade and other industrial elements.

The opening and operation of the China-Laos Railway and the entry into force of the RCEP (the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) have further widened Yunnan’s location advantage. To better promote the integrated development of economy and society along the railway, Kunming Area actively supports Yunnan Provincial Overseas Investment Co., Ltd, a state-owned enterprise in the area, to conduct overseas investment in the form of mixed ownership, to explore and create a new mode of “Free Trade Zone+Overseas Cooperation Zone” for internal and external linkage development, and to provide enterprises with precise service to construct SDZ.

As of the beginning of 2022, there have been 107 enterprises from China, Laos, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and other countries and regions settled in SDZ, covering warehouses and logistics, energy and chemical, electronics manufacturing, biological medicine, agricultural products processing, textile processing, business service, comprehensive health and other industries. After the RCEP comes into force, Chinese enterprises and foreign enterprises in the zone have more close cooperation in international capacity, and resource exploitation and utilization. SDZ will become a service platform for state-owned enterprises going abroad. To meet the demands of regional development and the host country, SDZ built a batch of industrial projects of regional characteristics. Among them, Laos petroleum refinery project has effectively filled the emptiness in Laos petrochemical industry chain.

Yunnan Provincial Overseas Investment Co., Ltd. and Laos Vientiane municipal government co-fund and form Laos-China Joint Venture Investment Co., Ltd. as the main operator of SDZ. Guided by the model of “Industrial Development Zone + New City of Vientiane”, SDZ will build an industry park focusing on processing and manufacturing, entrepot trade, modern logistics, wellness ecology and a Vientiane New City. At present, it has constructed 80,000 square meters of standardized factories and 4,000 square meters of comprehensive service facilities in phase I, and developments of Phase II and Vientiane New City are being promoted in a well-planned way. 

中国（云南）自由贸易试验区昆明片区坚持先行先试，发挥两区政策叠加优势，在老挝万象赛色塔开发区优先复制落地自贸试验区改革创新成果，目前，已实现跨境人员、跨境产能、跨境物流、跨境金融、跨境贸易等产业要素双向自由流动。

中老铁路开通运营与RCEP生效，进一步放大了云南的区位优势。为更好地促进铁路沿线经济社会一体化融合发展，昆明片区积极支持区内国有企业——云南省海外投资有限公司以混合所有制方式进行海外投资，探索打造“自贸试验区+境外合作区”内外联动发展新模式，为企业开发建设老挝万象赛色塔综合开发区提供精准服务。

截至2022年初，已有来自中国、老挝、泰国、日本、马来西亚、新加坡等国家和地区107个企业入驻赛色塔开发区，涵盖仓储物流、能源化工、电子产品制造、生物医药、农产品加工、纺织品加工、商贸服务、大健康等产业，集聚效应显著。RECP生效后，借助区域贸易投资便利化措施，区内中资和外资企业在国际产能、资源开发利用等方面的合作更加密切，赛色塔开发区将成为“国企出海”的双方服务平台。围绕区域发展和东道国需求，赛色塔开发区集中打造了一批区域特色产业项目，其中，老挝石油炼化项目有效填补了老挝石油化工产业链空白。

云南海投与老挝万象市政府共同出资组建老中联合投资有限公司作为赛色塔开发区的运营主体，按照“以产促城、以城带产、产城融合”模式，重点打造“产城双翼”，即在“产业翼”打造以加工制造、转口贸易、现代物流和康养生态为主导的产业园；在“新城翼”打造老挝万象新城。目前，产业园一期已建成80000平方米标准化厂房和4000平方米客户服务设施，产业园二期和万象新城的开发正在推进。（中文稿件来源：云南日报）