Dongxing, Guangxi

Dongxing (simplified Chinese: 东兴; traditional Chinese: 東興; pinyin: Dōngxīng,Vietnamese: Đông Hưng) is a county-level city of Guangxi, People's Republic of China, on the border with Mong Cai of Vietnam.

History

Refugees from Vietnam

In the summer of 1978, the Friendship Bridge that connected Dongxing and Mong Cai in Vietnam became a makeshift refugee camp for thousands of ethnic Chinese fleeing Vietnam. Ethnic Chinese had lived in Northern Vietnam for decades under Communist rule, but after the North and South unified in April 1975, the Communist government saw the Chinese in the South, many of whom were successful capitalists, as a threat to their socialist system and began persecuting the Chinese, forcing many to flee by boat. This became known as the Boat People. The Chinese in the North, who were mostly farmers, were also persecuted as part of an nation-wide 'ethnic cleansing' that Hanoi instituted. This caused an exodus of over 250,000 Chinese from Vietnam to flee to China, mainly to Dongxing.^[1]

Climate

Administrative divisions

Dongxing administers 3 towns:^[2]

Towns:

• Dongxing (东兴镇), Jiangping (江平镇), Malu (马路镇)

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