云南是中国通往南亚最便捷的重要通道，也是南亚国家开拓云南以及中国市场的门户。国家发布的《关于支持云南省加快建设面向西南开放重要桥头堡的意见》，为充分发挥云南的地缘优势，深化与南亚国家的经贸合作提供了政策支持。近年来印度经济的崛起引起了世界广泛关注，加大与印度的合作成为世界主要经济体的共同选择。中国与印度作为相互毗邻的当今世界发展最快的两大新兴经济体，经济互补性强，合作潜力巨大，彼此加强合作有利于实现共同发展。因此，加强与印度的经贸合作是“桥头堡”建设的重要内容，有利于进一步推动中国与南亚经贸合作发展到一个新的水平。
Yunnan province is the most convenient and important channel that links China and India, and it is a gateway for South Asia countries to develop Chinese market. The central government file, "Suggestions about speeding up construction Yunnan province as an important gateway open to southwest" provides policy support for Yunnan to take the geographical advantages and expand the trade cooperation with South Asia Countries. In recent years, the rise of India's economy caused extensive concern of the world. It is a common choice for world's major economies to expand cooperation with India. China and Indian are neighboring states. They are the world's fastest growing big economies that share strong complementarities in economy and have vast potentials for cooperation. Mutual cooperation benefits to achieve common development for the two countries. Therefore, to strengthen the trade cooperation is the important content of Gateway, which will promote economic and trade cooperation between China and South Asia to a new level.
