Abstract: This paper, after elaborating on the border location value, presents a comprehensive assessment model involving political policy, economic and social, ecological and cultural aspects. It has evaluated the Yunnan border city location value through principal component analysis. In the paper, according to the border location value gradient structure in the border areas, four development strategies are proposed: combining the growth pole with the characteristic economy in border cities, integrating the point-axis development and the cross-border economic corridor, developing the benign interaction of opening border cities on either side and the cross-border city (town) system, integrating and optimizing different modes and functions.