แนวทางการพัฒนาเมืองชายแดน : กรณีศึกษา เมืองมุกดาหาร / วลัยลักษณ์ พฤกษาทร = Development guidelines for border towns : a case study of Muang Mukdahan / Walailak Pruksatorn
The Objective of this research is to study the potential and roles of the city of Mukdahan and to propose the development guidelines for the city in order to respond to the government‘ s policy that aimed to develop Thailand as the Center for this region. Mukdahan is planned as the target for important exporting gate and as the channel for commercial trade connection with Indochina countries in the future. As the result of study, Mukdahan is a very highly potential bordertowns that can be developed. Mukdahan has an advantage of its location since it is situated opposite to Kwang Sawan Naket where it is the second largest city from Vientiane, the republic of Lao. Also with the collaboration policy between the six countries around the Khong river which are Thailand, Lao, Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma and South of china (Yunan), helping them achieve the plan of constructing the second Khong‘s river bridge at Mukdahan. Together with the improvement of highway number 9, which will make Mukdahan as the Center of International Transportation in Khong’ s subregion. Moreover the city can be the Commercial Gate to Indochina, the front door to Lao and Vietnam. This route will connect the east with the west like a land bridge. Furthermore, the construction project of the highway to be 4 lanes will facilitate the transport from Laem Cha Bang port pass through Sra Kaew and end the route at Mukdahan, this project would be a big advantage to the development of the city. Not only Mukdahan can be the connection city to the Indochina countries but also now it can be the center of trade contribution from the north east to the east domestically. The recommendation of this study is the guidelines to develop Mukdahan including to develop border trades, tourism, public utility, transportation and short-term urban development (5 years), long-term (20 years) to build Mukdahan as the Trade Border Town and Tourism town which can connect well to Indochina Countries in the future.
