在我国实行全方位对外开放的战略抉择中,边疆民族地区利用区位的优势,积极向周边国家开放,发展同周边国家的边境贸易,已经成为我国对外开放的重要组成部分。实践证明,发展边境贸易是振兴边疆民族地区经济的有效途径。新的世纪,挑战与机遇并存,边疆少数民族地区应紧紧抓住当前加快西部大开发和我国即将加入世界贸易组织的有利时机,积极创造条件使边贸向更高层次和阶段发展 In our country’s strategic choice of opening to the outside world in all directions, the frontier ethnic regions have taken the advantage of their location, actively opened up to neighboring countries and developed their border trade with neighboring countries. This has become an important part of China’s opening to the outside world. Practice has proved that developing border trade is an effective way to rejuvenate the economy in border ethnic areas. In the new century, the challenges and opportunities coexist. The ethnic minority areas in border areas should seize the favorable opportunity of accelerating the development of the western region and of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization immediately and actively create the conditions for the development of the border trade to a higher level and stage