Jiegao (; ) is a border trade zone in southern

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

near the

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with

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

. It is located southeast of

Ruili Ruili ( zh, s=瑞丽 , t=瑞麗 , p=Ruìlì; ; ; ; ), called Möng Mao in Tai, is a county-level city of Dehong Prefecture, in the west of Yunnan province, China. It is a major border crossing between China and Myanmar, with the town of Muse loc ...

and is part of

Yunnan Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...

province.

Geography

Jiegao is located on the east bank of the

Shweli River Shweli River (; zh, 瑞丽江) is a river in China and Myanmar (Burma). Also known as the Nam Mao (; ) in Shan or Dai, and Ruili River or Longchuan River (龙川江) in Chinese, it forms 26 km of the boundary between Burma and China. It is on ...

, surrounded by Burmese land. The Jiegao border trade zone has a total area of 2.4 square kilometers and a land area of 1.92 square kilometers. Across the river is the city of

and adjacent to

Muse, Myanmar Muse (; ) is the capital of Mu Se District and the principal town of Mu Se Township in northern Shan State, Myanmar. It is a border town situated on the Shweli River (Nam Mao), and is connected by a bridge to Ruili (Shweli, , in Burmese) in Yun ...

, from which it is less than 500 meters, being surrounded by Myanmar territory to the east, south and north. The Chinese national border is 4.18 kilometers long and has 9 boundary markers. It has four entry and exit routes (National Gate, Xiaoguo Gate, Yard Goods Gate and Binjiang).

History

Jiegao was founded as a provincial-level border trade zone in 1991, and updated to a national-level border trade zone in 2000. The trade zone implements a special mode called "out of customs but in the border", which means the customs station is located at the west end of bridge, but the Jiegao is located at the east. Exporting goods that cross the customs station to Jiegao is an export, and imported goods are exempt from declaration to the customs in the Jiegao trade zone.

Transport

Jiegao is the end of

China National Highway 320 China National Highway 320 (G320) runs southwest from Shanghai through the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guizhou before ending in Ruili, Yunnan Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The prov ...

References

Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture {{Yunnan-geo-stub