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Gejiu is a county-degree city and the former capital of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, and has 136,000 inhabitants. It is the website online of the USA's largest tin deposits and its most important enterprise is mining. Originally a small mining agreement Gejiu was called Gejiuli. Under the Yuan and Ming dynasties the mining of silver became all started there. In the past due 17th and 18th centuries, mining in Yunnan boomed, but tin mining in Gejiu did now not increase until the second half of of the 18th century.

In the 1880 the city became created a subprefecture under Mengzi County, approximately 30 km to the east. Gejiu only started to be developed after the French linked the place to the railway down off the Yunnan plateau into Vietnam. After the 1911 Revolution it turned into further evolved because of its area up inside the mountains, surrounded with the aid of considerable tin reserves. In 1889 Mengzi changed into opened as a treaty port, its exchange being nearly totally with Hanoi and Haiphong in what changed into then French Indochina. One of the principle functions in building the French-built Kunming–Hai Phong Railway, finished in 1910, was to carrier the mines. A branch line became built from Gejiu to Mengzi among 1915 and 1928.

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