On October 27, the Kokang Democratic Alliance Army launched an autumn offensive against parts of northern Burma, and the fighting spread to some areas along the border in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province.
Some netizens disclosed that the shells from the Myanmar side hit the third floor of a family building at the Wan Town Port, causing no casualties, and due to this, the Wan Town Port has been evacuated.
The cause of the fighting in northern Myanmar is currently only the Kokang Democratic Alliance. The rebels claimed that they were trying to strike at the wire fraud park in northern Myanmar and rescue people trapped there, including some Chinese nationals. In addition to the bandit militias, there are also Burmese government forces.
However, none of these reports were confirmed by a third party, and the Burmese army did not issue a statement on the matter.
China's foreign ministry called for a ceasefire between the warring parties, but did not specify the current situation of the warring parties in northern Myanmar.
Dehong, Lincang and other places in Yunnan Province border northern Myanmar. For more than 60 years, northern Myanmar has been in a state of war, which has seriously undermined the local economic development and China's development interests.
It was revealed that the Wan Town Port, which was affected by the war in Myanmar, is adjacent to the town of Kugu in Shan State, Myanmar, and howitzers or rockets were fired from the town.
The Wanmachi Port is a port of historical significance. On December 15, 1956, Premier Zhou Enlai ended his visit to Myanmar, and Burmese Prime Minister U Bari walked across the Wan Town Bridge from the Wan Town Port into China. The bridge is just a very short and narrow bridge, and now it is very vicissitudes, and children from Myanmar on the other side of the river go to elementary school for free in Wan Town, and they have to cross the Wan Town Bridge to go to school and return home from school.
The long-term war in northern Myanmar has continued, and Dehong and Lincang in Yunnan have been affected from time to time, and they have almost become accustomed to it. For example, on March 13, 2015, explosives from Myanmar fell into Chinese territory, killing four innocent civilians working in sugarcane fields in Dashui Mulberry Village, Mengding Township, Gengma County, Lincang City, and the next day, March 14, another injured person died in the hospital from his injuries.
The Chinese side has sent troops to advance and deploy on the border line, warning all factions in Myanmar not to make trouble, but the problems in northern Myanmar are so difficult to return that it is inevitable that old diseases will recur and affect the border areas of Yunnan.
Although the cause of the offensive of the Kokang Democratic Alliance has yet to be ascertained, the outcome has been determined: because the strategic resources of the warring parties are very limited, they will fight for a while and then die.
Kokang County in northern Myanmar is a special region. Kokang County was originally part of the Lincang region and was assigned to Myanmar in 1960. Up to 90% of the population of Kokang County is of the Kokang ethnic group, which is actually Han Chinese.