The liaison point is located in Nansan-Lougai port between southwest China's Yunnan Province and northern Myanmar's Kokang region. It will supplement two existing offices in Yunnan's Ruili and Longchuan that were founded in 2007 and 2008.

In 2009, Myanmar signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China to tackle the increasing issue of human trafficking and slavery—80 percent of people illegally trafficked from Myanmar arrive in China, many are women who are forced into marriages or to work in the sex industry.

"A total of 257 women and 42 children from Myanmar have been rescued in Yunnan since China launched a special campaign against human trafficking in April 2009," said the statement from the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar announcing the new liaison office opening.

According to a US Trafficking in Persons Report 2012, Myanmar government officials in 2011 identified 177 victims of trafficking, including 14 males. Sixty-nine percent of the victims identified were women and girls subjected to forced marriage in China.