Ruili

The city is named after the Shweli River. 瑞 ruì means "auspicious", and 丽 lì means "beautiful". An older name of Ruili is Mengmao ({{lang|zh|勐卯}}), derived from the Tai Nuea language "Mong Mao" ({{lang|tdd|ᥝᥥᥒᥰ ᥛᥫᥒᥰ}}), meaning "foggy place".{{cite news |title=云南瑞丽已着手地名维权，欲促使《瑞丽》杂志注销商标 |url=https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1350685 |access-date=27 January 2019 |publisher=thepaper.cn |date=9 August 2015 |language=zh}}

Ruili is on the border with Myanmar. 64% of the population of Ruili are members of five highland and lowland ethnic minorities, including Dai, Jingpo, Deang, Lisu, and Achang. It is an important location for trade with Myanmar, in both legal and illegal goods and services. Prostitution and drug trade in the city are not uncommon.{{cite news|last=Moe |first=Kyaw Zwa |date=January 2005 |title=Yunnan's Sin City |url=http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=4333&page=1 |newspaper=The Irrawaddy |location=Chiang Mai, Thailand |access-date=June 30, 2014 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124114900/http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=4333&page=1 |archive-date=January 24, 2011 }}[https://web.archive.org/web/20010125004800/http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/99/0927/ruili.html Sex, Drugs and The Roll of Dice], Time Asia, September 27, 1999

Ruili has a warm humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), and is generally humid. Summer is long and there is virtually no "winter" as such. Instead, there is a dry season (December through April) and wet season (May through October). A drier heat prevails from February till early May before the onset of the monsoon from the Indian Ocean. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from {{convert|14.0|°C|1}} in January to {{convert|25.0|°C|1}} in June, while the annual mean is {{convert|21.0|°C|1}}. Rainfall totals about {{convert|1385|mm|0|abbr=on}} annually, with nearly 70% of it occurring from June to September.

Bordered by monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forest, Ruili Botanical Garden is just north of the City and covers {{Convert|5000|acre}} of well-preserved native vegetation.

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| location = Ruili, elevation {{convert|763|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–present)

| Jan high C = 23.0

| Feb high C = 25.6

| Mar high C = 28.9

| Apr high C = 30.8

| May high C = 30.6

| Jun high C = 29.7

| Jul high C = 28.8

| Aug high C = 29.5

| Sep high C = 29.9

| Oct high C = 28.6

| Nov high C = 26.0

| Dec high C = 23.0

| Jan mean C = 14.0

| Feb mean C = 16.4

| Mar mean C = 19.9

| Apr mean C = 22.8

| May mean C = 24.3

| Jun mean C = 25.0

| Jul mean C = 24.7

| Aug mean C = 24.9

| Sep mean C = 24.4

| Oct mean C = 22.6

| Nov mean C = 18.6

| Dec mean C = 14.9

| Jan low C = 8.2

| Feb low C = 9.9

| Mar low C = 13.2

| Apr low C = 16.9

| May low C = 20.0

| Jun low C = 22.2

| Jul low C = 22.4

| Aug low C = 22.4

| Sep low C = 21.5

| Oct low C = 19.2

| Nov low C = 14.4

| Dec low C = 10.3

| Jan record high C = 26.9

| Feb record high C = 31.3

| Mar record high C = 33.8

| Apr record high C = 36.3

| May record high C = 36.4

| Jun record high C = 36.3

| Jul record high C = 33.8

| Aug record high C = 34.4

| Sep record high C = 36.8

| Oct record high C = 32.9

| Nov record high C = 30.9

| Dec record high C = 27.3

| Jan record low C = 1.4

| Feb record low C = 2.2

| Mar record low C = 5.5

| Apr record low C = 9.7

| May record low C = 13.6

| Jun record low C = 16.3

| Jul record low C = 16.5

| Aug record low C = 15.8

| Sep record low C = 15.4

| Oct record low C = 9.5

| Nov record low C = 5.2

| Dec record low C = 2.2

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| Jan precipitation mm = 15.3

| Feb precipitation mm = 13.8

| Mar precipitation mm = 19.3

| Apr precipitation mm = 53.4

| May precipitation mm = 148.7

| Jun precipitation mm = 260.9

| Jul precipitation mm = 310.7

| Aug precipitation mm = 250.4

| Sep precipitation mm = 146.1

| Oct precipitation mm = 117.8

| Nov precipitation mm = 37.2

| Dec precipitation mm = 11.1

| unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm

| Jan precipitation days = 2.8

| Feb precipitation days = 3.2

| Mar precipitation days = 4.6

| Apr precipitation days = 10.0

| May precipitation days = 17.2

| Jun precipitation days = 24.0

| Jul precipitation days = 26.6

| Aug precipitation days = 23.2

| Sep precipitation days = 17.2

| Oct precipitation days = 13.7

| Nov precipitation days = 4.8

| Dec precipitation days = 2.3

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| Jan sun = 221.9

| Feb sun = 236.9

| Mar sun = 262.3

| Apr sun = 247.2

| May sun = 218.1

| Jun sun = 150.1

| Jul sun = 109.4

| Aug sun = 139.7

| Sep sun = 163.8

| Oct sun = 176.8

| Nov sun = 198.1

| Dec sun = 194.4

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| Jan percentsun = 66

| Feb percentsun = 74

| Mar percentsun = 70

| Apr percentsun = 65

| May percentsun = 53

| Jun percentsun = 37

| Jul percentsun = 26

| Aug percentsun = 35

| Sep percentsun = 45

| Oct percentsun = 50

| Nov percentsun = 61

| Dec percentsun = 59

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| Jan humidity = 76

| Feb humidity = 67

| Mar humidity = 61

| Apr humidity = 63

| May humidity = 72

| Jun humidity = 80

| Jul humidity = 84

| Aug humidity = 83

| Sep humidity = 81

| Oct humidity = 80

| Nov humidity = 80

| Dec humidity = 81

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Dehong is one of the three primary coffee cultivating regions in Yunnan.{{cite news|title=Yunnan Coffee Company to Establish Trading Center in Chongqing to Boost Exports Via the Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe Railway Link|url=http://www.chinaag.org/2015/12/31/yunnan-coffee-company-to-establish-trading-center-in-chongqing-to-boost-exports-via-the-chongqing-xinjiang-europe-railway-link/|work=China AG|date=December 31, 2015}} The main coffee planter and processor is Hogood Coffee, which operates a contracting scheme with local farmers. Hogood contracts farmland from smallholders, on which it plants seedlings, and then re-contracts with farmers to purchase the coffee beans at harvest.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

Because of its position near the border with Myanmar, Ruili is an important hub of cross-border trade, including the new oil and gas pipeline coming up from Kyaukphyu, which is being expanded as part of the Belt and Road Initiative's Maritime Silk Road.{{Cite book |last1=Curtis |first1=Simon |title=The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China's Search for a New International Order |last2=Klaus |first2=Ian |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300266900 |location=New Haven and London |publication-date=2024 |pages=161 |doi=10.2307/jj.11589102 |jstor=jj.11589102}}

Ruili City has 1 subdistrict, 3 towns and 2 townships.{{cite web

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;1 subdistrict

• Mengmao Subdistrict ({{lang|zh-Hans|勐卯街道}}, {{lang|tdd|ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥛᥣᥝᥰ ᥐᥣᥭ ᥖᥣᥝᥱ}})

;3 towns

• Wanding Town ({{lang|zh-Hans|畹町镇}}, {{lang|tdd|ᥝᥢᥰ ᥖᥥᥒ ᥓᥫᥢᥱ}})
• Nongdao Town ({{lang|zh-Hans|弄岛镇}}, {{lang|tdd|ᥘᥩᥒᥴ ᥖᥝᥰ ᥓᥫᥢᥱ}})
• Jiexiang Town ({{lang|zh-hans|姐相镇}}, {{lang|tdd|ᥓᥥ ᥔᥦᥒᥴ ᥓᥫᥢᥱ}})

;3 townships

• Huyu Township ({{lang|zh-hans|户育乡}}, {{lang|kac|Hu yup Ning hton}})
• Mengxiu Township ({{lang|zh-hans|勐秀乡}}, {{lang|tdd|ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥞᥥᥝᥰ ᥔᥦᥒ}})

Han Chinese and Dai mostly live in the valley. In the city, Jingpo and Deang live mostly in the outskirts in the surrounding hills. There is also a sizeable community of Burmese immigrants and their descendants (mostly Muslims), numbering around 50,000 in the city, with their livelihoods centred around Zhubao Street (known locally as "Myanmar Town").{{cite news|title=The Myanmar Muslims in China|url=https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/the-myanmar-muslims-in-china/|work=Frontier Myanmar|date=March 6, 2025}}

• Wanding Border Economic Cooperation Zone

Wanding Border Economic Cooperation Zone (WTBECZ) is a Chinese State Council-approved Industrial Park based in Wanding Town of Ruili City, founded in 1992, and was established to promote Sino–Burmese trade. The zone spans {{convert|6|km2|abbr=on}} and is focused on developing trading, processing, agriculture resources, and tourism.[http://rightsite.asia/en/industrial-zone/wanding-border-economic-cooperation-zone/ RightSite.asia | Wanding Border Economic Cooperation Zone]

• Ruili Border Economic Cooperation Zone

Ruili Border Economic Cooperation Zone (RLBECZ) is a Chinese State Council-approved Industrial Park based in Ruili, founded in 1992, and was established to promote trade between China and Myanmar. The area's import and export trade include the processing industry, local agriculture, and biological resources, which are very promising. Sino-Myanmar business is growing fast. Myanmar is now one of Yunnan's biggest foreign trade partners. In 1999, Sino-Myanmar trade accounted for 77.4% of Yunnan's foreign trade. In the same year, exports for electromechanical equipment came up to US$55.28 million. Main exports here include fiber cloth, cotton yarn, ceresin wax, mechanical equipment, fruits, rice seeds, fiber yarn, and tobacco.[http://rightsite.asia/en/industrial-zone/ruili-border-economic-cooperation-zone/ RightSite.asia | Ruili Border Economic Cooperation Zone]

The Dali–Ruili Railway, which will connect Ruili with China's national railway network, is under construction.

A feasibility study for a standard gauge line from Kunming, China to Kyaukphyu port started in 2021.{{Cite web |title=China-Myanmar Muse-Kyaukpyu Railway Project Restarted--Seetao |url=https://www.seetao.com/details/205965.html |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.facebook.com |language=en}}

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{{Commons category|Ruili City}}

• [http://www.rl.gov.cn/ Ruili City Official Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725052253/http://www.rl.gov.cn/ |date=2008-07-25 }}
• [http://www.rlr.gov.cn/ Ruili Municipal People's Government] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306041153/http://www.rlr.gov.cn/ |date=2010-03-06 }}
• [https://www.theguardian.com/burma/story/0,,2179815,00.html Article about Ruili's economy]

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