Jade business draws crowds to Yunnan

Xishuangbanna,

Yunnan - In printed T-shirt, longyi (a traditional skirt-like garment) and plastic sandals, a middle-aged Myanmar jeweler is bargaining with clients in fluent Chinese in his store in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province.

It has been five years since the family of 39-year-old La Mao, a Muslim, his wife and two daughters left their hometown of Yangon to come to Xishuangbanna and start a jewelry business here.