贸易畅通是中国—东盟共建“一带一路”最核心的内容之一。数十年来，中国与东盟国家经贸关系稳步发展，区域经济整合不断深化，东南亚华商发挥了不可替代的作用。当前，中国与东盟国家正全力推进双方贸易畅通，东南亚华商基于现实利益考量，凭借其雄厚实力、历史经验、市场网络等优势，可以在巩固和扩大传统贸易，拓展新的贸易、投资增长点，优化贸易结构和产业链分工布局，消除投资和贸易壁垒，构建区域内和各国良好的营商环境等方面扮演重要角色。
Unimpeded Trade is a major task in building the Belt and Road. Over the last few decades，China-ASEAN economic relations has kept steady increase，and regional Economic Integration has been continuously deepen. In this process，ethnic Chinese Businesses in Southeast Asia have played an irreplaceable role. Nowadays China works with ASEAN’s countries to steadily implement Unimpeded Trade. Solid strength，Historical Experience and commercial network have constituted a strong competitiveness for Ethnic Chinese businesses，when they are engaged in economic activities between ASEAN and china with the drive of practical interests. Ethnic Chinese Businesses’ efforts are helpful to consolidate and expand conventional China-ASEAN trade，explore new growth areas of trade and investment，improve trade structure and the division of labor and distribution of industrial chains，and eliminate trade and investment barriers for the creation of a sound business environment within the region and in all related countries.
