The Thilawa Special Economic Zone located at 14 miles (23km) in the South-East of Yangon, which is the biggest commercial city of Myanmar. The construction of all the hard infrastructure inside the zone has commenced since November 2013. The required soft infrastructure are begin built up to be in line with the international standards. It is the first international standard SEZ of Myanmar and is developed by a Myanmar-Japan joint venture company with the name of Myanmar-Japan Thilawa Development Limited, that the Myanmar government, Japanese government, Myanmar private consortium and Japanese private consortium have stakes.