Abstract: “Development Program of Pearl River and Xijiang River Economic Belt (2014-2020)” focuses on implementation, and it is not only necessary to have short, medium-term strategies, but also have a long-term vision. Attention should be paid to join together the programs of Pearl River Delta and Pearl River and Xijiang River Economic Belt, and the inevitable choice to proliferate the industry of the early developed regional, which centers around the Pearl River Delta, to the upstream of the Pearl River Basin. Attention should be paid to the link between the two economic belts, and the links of Xijiang River and other major economic sectors like the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong and Macao, as well as the ASEAN, South Asia, West Asia, North Africa, and Europe along the “Maritime Silk Road”. Attention should be paid to the integration of the two rivers with a program considered from every possible angle, and achieve substantial economic and social development in the basin on the base of a high integration of the two river, by means of enhancing the ecological environment, infrastructure and industrial distribution. Attention should be paid to the cooperation between Guangdong and Gangxi, and strive to change the barriers of non-cooperative competition of administrative region.

Key words: Pearl River and Xijiang River Economic belt, development vision, path choice