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Ruili City is located in southwestern Yunnan Province and belongs to the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture. It is 99 kilometers by land from the prefecture's capital, Mangshi, and 890 kilometers from the provincial capital, Kunming. It is the terminus of National Highway 320, which originates from Shanghai, and the intersection of the Kunming-Ruili Highway and the Stilwell Road. It is connected to Myanmar on the northwest, southwest, and southeast sides by mountains and rivers, with villages nestled between them.
Ruili borders Myanmar on three sides, with a 169.8-kilometer-long border. It is my country's largest trade port with Myanmar, home to two national Class I ports, Ruili and Wanding. Ruili and its friendly neighbor, Myanmar, are linked by mountains and rivers, with villages nestled between them. Sharing common ethnicities and religions, Ruili City and its friendly neighbor, Myanmar, have formed a unique landscape of "one basin, two countries." The economies and cultures of China and Myanmar blend here, with border residents trading and intermarrying, fostering a harmonious and friendly border that is a global model.
Ruili City boasts five major jewelry processing and sales parks: the Jewelry Pedestrian Street, Huafeng Jewelry Processing Zone, New Oriental Jewelry City, Jiegao Jade City, and China-Myanmar Street. These parks host over 2,000 jewelry companies and shops, attracting jewelers from across China, as well as from Myanmar, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, employing nearly 10,000 people. Ruili jade carvings annually receive the "Tiangong Award," the highest honor in the jade carving industry, in Beijing. In 2006, the city was designated a "China Gem and Jade Jewelry Specialty Industrial Base."
Ruili is renowned as a peacock town, with its peacock dance included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. The Dai people, known for their singing and dancing, say, "Without the peacock dance, life is like living without brown sugar or eating without salt."
Ruili has a subtropical monsoon climate, with two seasons, dry and rainy, throughout the year. The average annual temperature is around 21°C. There is no snow, the winter is not very cold, and the summer is very hot. Flowers here bloom all year round.
The best time to travel to Ruili is from July to mid-September. The tourist season is when summer turns to autumn. At that time, the weather in Ruili is neither cold nor hot, and the air is not very dry, which makes people feel very comfortable. It is the best time to travel.
The geographical wonder of "One Village, Two Countries" has no obvious border line and the people of the two countries live in harmony.
Rich in vegetation and high in negative oxygen ion content, it is a natural forest oxygen bar
The tree has a unique shape and its posture changes from left to right and front to back. Many movies and TV shows have been filmed here.
The border bridge between China and Myanmar is also an important channel for economic, trade and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
