Chinese trader with market forming and circle-trading in Vientiane

Abstract

                   This article aimed to find out the cause, status, and process of business territory setting-up of the Chinese traders in Vientiane after a cooperative project on the Greater Mekong Sub-region or GMS. The study was conducted through historical and anthropological research methodology: interview the Chinese and the Laotians, observation, official document references, academic studies and information from newspapers.

                   The finding revealed that the new Chinese traders had entered into the capital of Vientiane after the GMS project towards the receptive rules and beneficial relationships between the governments of China and Lao. So the Chinese traders formed markets and imported goods from China. Each group set up trading networks among their groups to the manufactures in China. Then the business territory setting-up of the Chinese traders provided low-priced goods from Chinese in markets. Subsequently, Chinese goods were constantly distributed over Vientiane markets.  Moreover the strength commerce of Chinese traders’ businesses had attracted Lao traders to trade in Chinese goods.  This had become a circulation of the Chinese goods to many towns in Lao as well.