A new Great Wall will be built along the China-Myanmar border to prevent Chinese nationals from fleeing the country

Yunnan Wanding, China’s border with Myanmar, the engineer wants to install monitoring lens for the newly built wall.

The Kokang ethnic group in northern Myanmar recently revealed on overseas social media platforms that the first phase of the china-Myanmar border separation project code-named “Southern Great Wall” has been completed to prevent Chinese people from fleeing to Myanmar. The length is 660 kilometers. One Yunnan Wanding said that the authorities have started to build the wall at the beginning of this year. In addition, Chinese authorities had previously built a wall along the Border with Vietnam in Guangxi province to keep citizens from crossing the border.

The first phase of the project code-named “Southern Great Wall” has been completed, the Kokang ethnic Group’s Twitter account said.

The Chinese government is building a wall along the border with Myanmar in Ruili and Wanding in Yunnan province to thwart illegal border crossings. The Chinese government has completed the first phase of a border closure project code-named “The Great Wall of the South” to prevent its citizens from escaping to Myanmar, according to a post by the First Special Zone (Kokang Ethnic Minority) in northern Shan State, Myanmar. The length is 660 kilometers. It’s all made of barbed wire. The second phase, to be completed by the end of next year, will cut off more than 2,000km of myanmar-china border.

The third phase of the “Southern Great Wall” project will be completed in October 2022, when high-voltage power grids will be installed along key smuggling routes, said The tweet from the first Special Zone in northern Shan State. Skynet camera system and infrared alarm will be installed everywhere.

A warning sign on the Chinese side of the fence.

Yunnan border residents: construction has begun at the beginning of this year

The wall, 660 kilometers long, is about 3 meters high. (First SAR, Northern Shan State, Myanmar)

On the YouTube platform, a yunnan border resident named Amu posted a short video saying that the authorities started building the fence earlier this year, replacing the original simple wooden fence with a real metal one.

Amu said: I am Amu, I am now in the China-Myanmar border One Idea port, Wanding and Myanmar across a river, there are our Chinese side of the workers in the maintenance of monitoring equipment, we see in front not far away also monitoring.

The fence was built to prevent Burmese from sneaking into China to work, and the novel Coronavirus from entering China, Said Amu. Another Chinese resident who has been to Myanmar said that after building a wall along the border, China has all but cut off civilian contacts, including economic aid, between the two countries. The fight against smuggling and drug trafficking is very strong. Armed groups in northern Myanmar can send senior officials to drive into China and hand over aid at local restaurants or hotels. But it is subject to customs duties.

High – voltage power grids will be added to the fence

Novel Coronavirus imported from Abroad is not the main reason behind the Chinese government’s building of a high wall on the Border between China and Myanmar, the commander of scholars focusing on China-Myanmar relations said in an interview with Radio Free Asia on Monday.

The commander said, “China built this wall, not overnight, but through very careful planning.” In the past, it was easy to cross the border between China and Vietnam and Myanmar, so people from both countries were in China today, and went to Vietnam tomorrow, or even back and forth the same day. Another purpose of the wall is to prevent the exodus of Chinese citizens, a trend that China does not want to continue.

It is getting harder and harder for Chinese dissidents to escape

Shanxi taiyuan a scholar mr.wang said, the government in the border building civil building walls, can be understood as China’s reform and opening up for 40 years, turned stability indicator of clearly marked, around the police advised dissidents to leave China, such as wuhan police advised dissidents Qin Yongmin abroad, Beijing police once hope Mr Liu to go to America, but now, authorities in the opposite direction.

Mr. Wang said: Let China back to the Cultural Revolution, not only closed the country, the cultural Revolution is a very important feature of the Chinese people can not go out, at that time a lot of people fled arrested, Southeast Asia is the way for Chinese people to escape. When Xi (Xianping) came to power, not only the domestic ones were not allowed to go out, but the ones abroad even kidnapped you back. Domestic dissidents now find it hard to get out, as they well know.

On Aug. 23, a dozen Hong Kong youths who had been involved in the anti-China movement tried to take a speedboat to Taiwan to seek asylum, but the speedboat was intercepted by Chinese coast guards as it left Hong Kong waters. Hong Kong media reported that the police were informed of the whole process and sent helicopters to monitor the whole process.

In late October, THE BBC reported that the Chinese government was building hundreds of kilometers of a wall, more than two meters high, along the border with Vietnam, reportedly to prevent Chinese nationals from fleeing. A short video uploaded by Internet users shows the reinforced concrete fence being constructed in sections, with several cement piles erected on the hillside to form a winding curve. China’s land border with Vietnam stretches for 1,300 kilometers, and some netizens have said that a high wall will be built along the border.