Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin summoned Myanmar Ambassador, Thit Linn Ohn, on March 14, 2015, after a bomb from a Burmese aircraft fell in Chinese territory and urged him to investigate the bombing and take steps to ensure the safety of the border area. The bomb fell on March 13, 2015, in a sugarcane field near the city of Lincang, in the south-western Chinese province of Yunnan. According to China's official media, four people were killed and nine wounded. The incident came a few days after a stray shell from Myanmar flattened a house in Chinese territory, prompting condemnation from Beijing.
Separately, Shen Jinke, a spokesman for China’s PLA Air Force (PLAAF) said on March 14, 2015, that the PLAAF had dispatched aircraft to patrol the border and would step up activities to protect the sovereignty of China’s airspace.
Myanmar has accused Chinese mercenaries of fighting with the rebels, and has urged China to co-operate in preventing “terrorist attacks” being launched from Chinese territory. China has denied that any attacks into Myanmar have come from its side. China and Myanmar share a border 1,250 miles long (2,000km).
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