The Vegetable Supply Chain in the Border Farmers Market and its Practice of Mutual Trade:A Field Investigation of Mengding of Yunnan Province in the Sino-Myanmar Border Area
Mengding Town of Gengma County in Lincang Prefecture of Yunnan province of China has its Qingshuihe Trading Port bordering Myanmar.In Mengding border farmers market,there are two active business activities:a vegetable supply chain and the business circle of Myanmar Street.Since the upgrading of Qingshuihe Trading Port and the implementation of the favorable policies for the mu-tual trade of the border people,the border trade has enjoyed a regular and scale development.Its veg-etable supply chain is promoted by the capital from the interior land and is market-operated with the feature of large-scale chain extension.Its business circle is woven by the social network based on in-terpersonal relations of the businessmen from Myanmar in the market with a sense of community and real-life experience as well as the feature of aggregation.The two different mechanism are interactive in the farmers market through extension and aggregation,and have combined to form a new dynamic equilibrium in the border trade and provide a new possibility of life for the local people.
cross-border trademarket spacesupply chainpractice of mutual tradedynamic equi-librium
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