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The China–Vietnam border is the international boundary between China and Vietnam, consisting of a 1,297 km (806 mi) terrestrial border stretching from the tripoint with Laos in the west to the Gulf of Tonkin coast in the east, and a maritime border in the Gulf of Tonkin and South China Sea.
Modern Han Chinese settlement and immigration in Vietnam arose from the presentation of conducive opportunities for trade, investment, and business upon their visits to Hội An from the 16th century onward who initially traded black incense, silk, alum, and traditional Chinese medicinal products with the indigenous Kinh populace. [48]
Vietnamese immigration checkpoint in Ho Chi Minh City's cruise terminal. Immigration to Vietnam is the process by which people migrate to become Vietnamese residents. After the declaration of independence in 1945, immigration laws were modified to give the central government some control over immigrant workers arriving from nearby South Asian countries such as China (including Hong Kong ...
Operation Passage to Freedom was a term used by the United States Navy to describe the propaganda effort [2] [3] and the assistance in transporting in 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam (the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) to non-communist South Vietnam (the State of ...
While transnational marriages (not only with migrants from Vietnam, but also Laos and Myanmar) have been historically common in China's border regions, it has only been since 2010 that they have become popular in China's interior provinces, including Anhui, Henan, Hubei, and Jiangxi (barring a sharp decline in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic ...
A group of 61,000 people on Hainan speak the Yao language Kim Mun; 139,000 speakers of Kim Mun live in other parts of China (Yunnan and Guangxi), and 174,500 live in Laos and Vietnam. [20] The Bunu people call themselves Nuox, Buod nuox [po˦˧ no˩˧], Dungb nuox [tuŋ˧no˩˧], or their official name Yaof zuf [ʑau˨˩su˨˩].
The leaders of China and Vietnam hailed as "strategic" on Wednesday their decision to strengthen ties and be part of a community with a "shared future", as a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping ...
The Dai people form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. By extension, the term can apply to groups in Laos , Vietnam , Thailand and Myanmar when Dai is used to mean specifically Tai Yai , Lue , Chinese Shan , Tai Dam , Tai Khao or even Tai in general.