On the morning of December 11, it was announced at a press conference on Yunnan Province's "High-Quality Completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan" that since 2023, Ruili City in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture has prioritized the development of border industrial parks. The core Ruili zone of the border industrial park has added 831 new enterprises, marking a 92.2% increase. Industrial value-added above designated size in the park grew by 86% in 2023 and 119% in 2024, driving the transformation of port-based economies from "transit economies" to "localized economies."

Market-driven investment attraction has accelerated enterprise clustering. Ruili City adopted strategies such as business-led and supply chain-driven investment promotion, attracting over 600 enterprises from central and eastern China for negotiations. This effort mobilized 7 billion yuan in private investment to construct 10 "parks within parks," with cumulative construction of 2.1 million square meters of factory buildings and supporting facilities. Private investment accounted for 76% of the total, facilitating the rapid implementation of 130 out of 155 signed projects—an 83.9% landing rate—and the operation of 107 projects, achieving an 82.3% operational rate. The number of enterprises in the park's four leading industries surged to 196, a fourfold increase.

Refined services have spurred industrial transformation. Ruili City introduced innovative mechanisms like weekly enterprise meetings and the "Five Assistance" program, resolving over 3,500 corporate challenges. It guided enterprises to invest 1.16 billion yuan in upgrading automation and smart equipment while enhancing worker training. These measures improved textile and apparel production efficiency by approximately 25% and reduced labor costs by around 20%. The number of newly upgraded industrial enterprises reached 19 in 2024, with expectations to exceed 40 in 2025. R&D spending by large-scale enterprises grew 28-fold, and tax revenue increased 13.5 times.

Integrated development has strengthened the park's economic spillover effects. Ruili City promoted industrial support for agriculture, creating jobs for over 4,800 local residents and achieving an 86.4% rural labor retention rate. Industrial growth also spurred urban development, adding 34,000 new market entities and 88,000 jobs, attracting 224,000 domestic migrants and 83,000 foreign workers and entrepreneurs. Over the past three years, 82% of Ruili’s commercial property buyers were from outside the city, and the urbanization rate rose to 77.4%.

Systematic reforms have advanced high-level openness. Leveraging 10 national-level policy advantages, Ruili completed 978 reform tasks and pioneered 78 innovative measures, with one replicated nationally and 26 provincially. The first phase of its smart port became operational, restoring customs efficiency to top-tier levels among China’s land ports. Total foreign trade ranked among Yunnan’s top three, with 40 import-processing enterprises established. The city also organized employment for over 50,000 foreign workers and piloted cross-border financial innovations for wage repatriation, exemplifying the principles of "good-neighborliness, shared prosperity, and a community with a shared future."