According to the Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan, a Chinese trading area was cleared before the recent violence escalated. As a result, no casualties have been reported.

Nevertheless, many shops in Bishkek, where many Chinese leathergoods firms were based, have been damaged and even destroyed in the chaos. The majority of Chinese firms trading there were from Zhejiang and Fujian provinces and were selling leather footwear and small leathergoods.

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