RUILI, China: At a checkpoint on China's southern frontier with Myanmar, shuttered stores advertising the region's famed jade jewellery appear abandoned, driven out of business by a pandemic-induced closure of the border. The city of Ruili is slowly creaking back to life as China ditches its zero-tolerance
RUILI, China: At a checkpoint on China's southern frontier with Myanmar, shuttered stores advertising the region's famed jade jewellery appear abandoned, driven out of business by a pandemic-induced closure of the border.
On Sunday, a Myanmar official told AFP the border had finally been partially reopened, with some trucks making the crossing - spurring hope for a revival of the local economy. "We were locked down so many times each year, not just once or twice - as if we were sleeping for months and months at home," Duan, a jade seller in the city's Delong jewellery market, told AFP.
Huang, another jewellery seller, told AFP she became trapped outside Ruili by a travel ban in 2020 after attending her mother-in-law's funeral in distant Shanxi province.
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