Characteristics of Development Path of Light Industry in Southeast Asia and South Asia

The characteristics of these two development paths are as follows:

The development path of Southeast Asia is characterized by an export-oriented economy, with export processing industries as the mainstay and less developed heavy industries. After the independence of Southeast Asian countries, there is basically no industrial base. With the rapid development of Japanese economy and the transfer of western industries, Southeast Asia has accepted processing industries and western investment on a large scale, forming an import-processing-export model.

Characteristics of the development path of South Asia's industries: All countries in South Asia belong to developing countries, and all take agriculture as the national economic foundation. However, with the rapid economic development, some high-tech industries have been developed, such as Bangalore in India's Silicon Valley. Most South Asian countries are traditional agricultural countries, and their economic characteristics are comprehensive economy with agricultural production as the mainstay and industry as the supplement.