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Description
The China–Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor (CICPEC) is a southern axis of the Belt and Road Initiative that connects southwestern China to mainland Southeast Asia. Linking China’s Yunnan and Guangxi regions to the Mekong subregion, the corridor spans Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia, extending toward Singapore. Its structure is organised around several north–south alignments radiating from Kunming and Nanning, converging through key regional hubs such as Hanoi, Vientiane, Bangkok, and Phnom Penh. The corridor builds upon and overlaps with earlier regional integration frameworks, particularly the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) economic cooperation programme.