Chengdu, the bridgehead of West China's Development Project, has been planned by the State Council as a center in Southwest China for science and technology, commerce and trade, finance, transportation and communications. A trade market network has been built taking the national market as its lead, with a regional wholesale market as its backbone and retail market as its basis. The food and beverage enterprises in the industrial park sell products to Southwest China including Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou, Shanxi, Qinghai and Tibet as well as neighboring countries like Myanmar, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries. Chengdu ranks first in the west for its market reach and holds a commanding height in the 400 million people's market of western China and other Southeast Asian countries and regions.
