Objective/SignificationThe research reviews comprehensively the domestic and foreign progress of agricultural extroversion and cross-border agri-food supply chain in recent years. It provides new thinking for southwest minority areas as a unified economic community to carry out agricultural exteriorization and cross-border agri-food supply chain.

Method/ProcessThe research is divided into three aspects: 1) the agricultural extroversion; 2) the cross-border agri-food supply chain; 3) the integration of agricultural extroversion and cross-border agri-food supply chain. It reviews current development, discusses emphasis and deficiency. The research finds: most research focuses on major cities, and relatively independent to each other in theory and practice of agricultural extroversion or cross-border agri-food supply chain, with very few integration research.

Result/ConclusionOn the basis of combing existing research, the paper tries to put forward the logical framework and theory path on overall coordinating and promoting agricultural exteriorization of the southwest minority areas by cross-border agri-food supply chain.