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Other routes, of course, enter the province though they are not 

 to be compared in importance with those I have already mentioned. 

 They include the following roads from Burma : — ■ 



(1) Myitkyina to Teng-yiieh via Sadon and Ku-yung-kai, or 



via Sadon and Chan-hsi. This track is usually followed 

 by the caravans from the jade, mines. 



(2) Bhamo and Nam Hkam in Burma, to Teng-yiieh and 



Yung-crTang Fu, via Che-fang, Mang-shih and Lung- 

 ling Ting, a quicker way into the British Northern Shan 

 States than the Bhamo-Teng-yiieh route, and, there- 

 fore, often taken by coolies and others who find employ- 

 ment in the towns, mines, and forests of the Northern 

 Shan States. 



(3) The road from Lashio (the railhead of the Shan States 



branch of the Burma Railways), to Ta-li Fu and other 

 cities in Central Yunnan, via the Kunlon ferry across 

 the Salween river and Yun-chou. This is important 

 because it has been greatly advocated as a proposed 

 railway line into Yunnan from Burma. 



(1 ) The route from Kengtung in the British Southern Shan 

 States into Southern Yunnan, via Kenghung and Ssu- 

 mao. The latter city is the " treaty port " of Southern 

 Yunnan, and this road takes the trade between Burma 

 and the cities of the southern portion of Yunnan. 



THE TRANS-FRONTIER TRADE OF YUNNAN. 



Statistics of the foreign trade of Yunnan are available from 

 three sources ; the annual reports of the Chinese Maritime Customs 

 Service dealing with the three "treaty ports'* of Meng-tzu, Ssu- 

 mao and Teng-yiieh ; the annual notes on the trans- frontier trade 

 of Burma published by the Government of Burma, and the annual 

 reports of His Britannic Majesty's Consular officers in Yuiman Fu 

 and Teng-yiieh. 



The treaty port of Meng-tzu was opened in 1887 and here the 

 import and export trade with Tongking is recorded. Ssu-mao 

 records trade between Yunnan, the Southern Shan States, and the 

 upper Laos. Teng-yiieh, opened as a treaty port in 1902, is on the 

 main trade route between Burma and Western China. 



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