Bordering on Recovery: Ruili, the Jade Town on the China-Myanmar Frontier

Since February, Sixth Tone’s video team has been traveling to border towns all over China, documenting the complex legacy of three years of “zero-COVID” restrictions. Ruili, a city straddling China’s southwestern border with Myanmar, is the first stop in this series.
Before the pandemic, Ruili rose to prosperity as a center for the jade trade. But the city faced some of China’s strictest anti-COVID measures, losing a large number of its population as a result.
Now, the border has finally reopened. But as Sixth Tone’s Lü Xiao, Li Pasha and Wu Huiyuan observe, economic revival didn’t take place overnight.
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[@VICTOR-pb9yp]

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[@edwardsnowden8821]

i really love the quality and depth of your video

[@stanbimi]

Interesting place. Like all border towns where one side is a rich country and the other side is a poor country, it is for the adventurous souls.