China City in Little Mengla, Myanmar

Mengla, also known as Little Mengla (to distinguish it from Mengla in Yunnan), is the capital of the fourth special zone in eastern Shan State, Myanmar. It is located in the northeast of Myanmar, adjacent to Luoda Town, Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. Now it is controlled by the National League for Democracy in eastern Shan State and enjoys a high degree of autonomy.

Mengla, the capital of the Fourth Special Zone of Shan State, Myanmar, is located in the northeast of Myanmar, adjacent to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China. Now it is controlled by the National League for Democracy in eastern Shan State and enjoys a high degree of autonomy.

There are 74,000 people in the Fourth Special Zone of Myanmar where Mengla is located, and 13 ethnic groups live in this land of only 4,952 square kilometers. More than a decade ago, it was a key area for drug cultivation, processing and trafficking, and an important channel for drugs from northern Myanmar to flow to the international market. 1On June 30, 989, the Myanmar government approved the establishment of the fourth special zone in the eastern part of Shan State, which has jurisdiction over three administrative regions: Mengla, Nanban and Salo. At that time, the fourth special zone also planted more than 22,000 mu of opium, with three heroin processing plants and one yellow border processing plant. 199 1, the sar began to implement the drug control plan. At this time, Mengla was still a small mountain village with no electricity and only thatched houses. Subsequently, relying on the tourism industry in Xishuangbanna, China, Mengla made great efforts to develop "characteristic tourism" and embarked on another "unique" development path.