Vision:
The vision of the province is: “An ancient city of Lamphun with agricultural advancement and the Northern Industrial Estate” which projects its future trends and focus based on development as follows:
1. Focusing on agricultural development, particularly the production of longans and vegetables for domestic consumption and export.
2. Focusing on development and promotion of investment and expansion of the industrial sector such as expanding and clear zoning of the northern industrial area, development of infrastructure, labor and technology as well as increasing competition capacity of handicrafts, textiles and woodcarvings so that they will become SMES and community industries to compete at the national and international levels.
3. Focusing on Lamphun’s being an ancient city with well developed social and cultural conditions including tourism for a good quality of life of its population. This scheme will generate income for the poor and less privileged families and conserve the art and culture of this 1,400 year-old city to reach sustainability. It is hoped that this will improve the environment as well. At the same time, it will increase the potential of several tourist attractions in the province, such as the Mai Ping/Khun Tan National Park. Meanwhile, the plan also includes development of human resources via a life-long learning process and the promotion of local wisdom along with knowledge about IT to increase the people’s chances for employment.

Strategies:
To accomplish the vision and the goals of the province, some strategies and action plans have been set up as follows:
     1. Aggressive strategies to create a new economic base.
          1.1 For Agriculture
                - Promoting marketing by setting up a central agricultural market in the region for exporting as well
                  as importing.
          1.2 For Industry
                - Creating an investment base for industry to be the regional center of industry by expanding
                  industrial areas and creating facilities necessary for the expansion.
                - Creating a knowledge-based economy taking advantage of the culture and knowledge available
                  in the community.
     2. Adjustment Strategies to add value to the existing economic base.
          2.1 For Agriculture
                - To develop the province to become a production center and a good quality longan market with
                  an international standard.
                - To promote and develop sustainable agriculture following the king’s initiatives.
                - To promote alternative farm products.
                - To develop water sources to supply adequate water for agriculture.
          2.2 For Industry
                - To develop and upgrade the handicraft industry.
          2.3 For Social, Cultural and Tourism development
                - To develop Lamphun as a tourist place for nature tours and ancient city tour.
    3. Sustainable development strategies to support both the existing economic base and the new one for
        sustainability.
          3.1 For Agriculture
                - To produce good quality and chemical free agricultural products for domestic consumption and
                  export.
          3.2 For Social, Cultural and Tourism development
                - To solve poverty and income distribution problems.
                - To make Lamphun a city with good natural resources and environmental management.
                - To reduce casualties and property damage due to traffic accidents and crime.
          3.3 For Human resource development
          3.4 For Promotion of ethics
          3.5 For development of education and life-long learning.