What about those China people who live in Myanmar?

There are four China people living in Myanmar:

1. Kokang people: about 1.4 million people live in the first special zone of Shan State, Myanmar with Kokang as the core, covering an area of about 2,700 square kilometers, and administer 1 county, 1 city, 2 towns and 1 township. The first special zone is set up as 1 county 1 city 1 special economic zone, namely, the special economic zones of Kokang County, Laojie City and Qingshuihe River. It was a group of officers and men who followed Zhu Youlang and Li Yong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and civilians persecuted by the Manchu government. They moved here more than 300 years ago and lived in the Kokang area for generations.

Second, the descendants of the 93rd Division of the National Army lived in the Golden Triangle area with Mysore in Thailand as the core.

3. China people: The first batch of China people who settled in Myanmar are said to be jade merchants who moved to the mountains near Kachin State in northern Myanmar several centuries ago. They moved here from Yunnan province. 186 1 year, the first cantonese businessman came to the ancient capital of mandalay dynasty in Myanmar via Singapore. From 65438 to 0885, Britain occupied the whole of Myanmar and incorporated it into a province of India. A large number of China people immigrated to Myanmar by sea through the Straits Colony. At present, ethnic Chinese account for 3% of Myanmar's total population.

The number of China immigrants in Myanmar surged in the1930s, and by World War II, the number of China people had reached194,000 to 300,000, accounting for about 1% of the total population. They set up Chinese newspapers, Chinese schools and societies. From 65438 to 0950, there were four Chinese daily newspapers and three weekly newspapers in Yangon, and there were more than 200 schools in Myanmar.

The fourth is the Mongolian literati, who mainly live in Shan State in northern Myanmar. He is a Han nationality who migrated from Dehong mangshi in his early years. The current number is around 1 10,000.