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The Kokang people (Chinese: 果敢族; pinyin: Guŏgăn Zú) are an ethnic group of Burma (also known as Myanmar). They are Mandarin-speaking Han Chinese living in Kokang Special Region. In 1997 it was estimated that the Kokang people together with more recently immigrated Yunnanese constituted 30–40 percent of Burma’s ethnic Chinese population.Most Kokang are descendants of Chinese speakers who migrated to what is now Shan State in the 18th century.