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Yumen Pass (simplified Chinese: 玉门关; traditional Chinese: 玉門關; pinyin: Yùmén Guān) or Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate is the name of a pass located west of Dunhuang in today’s Gansu Province of China. In ancient times this was a pass through which the Silk Road passed and was the one road connecting Central Asia and China the former called the Western Regions.