Inside the Import & Export Processing and Manufacturing Base of the Ruili Industrial Park, Myanmar workers, accounting for roughly 80% of the base's workforce, are busy completing tasks at assembly lines on Jan 10, 2023. Over the past three years, the base, a main manufacturing hub in Ruili, home to the largest land port on the China-Myanmar border, has worked largely at full speed. Firms in the base are currently hoping for the reopening of borders to inject new vitality into the local economy. Dormitories of the Import & Export Processing and Manufacturing Base of the Ruili Industrial Park, about a dozen kilometers away from downtown Ruili. Six out of the eight dormitory buildings, a five-min walk from the manufacturing base, house Myanmar workers. Photos: Li Qiaoyi/GT